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Beginning of 

The Beulah Anchorage 

A Home to Rescue Homeless and Fallen Girls and Women 
417 SOUTH FIFTH STREET, READING, PENNSYLVANIA 




Isa. 1:18 — Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as 
white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be 
as wool. 

Rev. 21:7 — He that overcometh shall inherit all things, and 
I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 

St. John 8:11 — And Jesus said unto her, neither do I con- 



Matt. 25:45 — Inasmuch as ye did it not unto the least of 
these, ye did it not to me. 






Copyright October 1920 

hy 

MRS. M. L. LANDIS 

Founder and President 



Hitherto hath the Lord helped us. 
§)CU605742 






To the Dear Charity Friends 

of Reading, Pa., 

and All Others 

This Book is Affectionately Dedicated 

by the Author. 

May Influence Always be in Favor 

of the 

Highest Standard of Christian 

Character, 



CONTENTS 



Page 

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 6 

MATTER OF FACT AND COMMON SENSE 7 

INTRODUCTION 9 

PREFACE 11 

MEANS OF PROGRESS (Poem) 12 

PART ONE— 

Sermon by Rev. S. B. Goff, Evangelist, delivered August 20, 

1920, at Ocean Grove 13 

Humility ^ 21 

Means of Obedience 22 

Letter by Rev. Horace Weaver 23 

Letter of Appreciation by Unknown Friend „ 24 

Officers, 1914-1918 26 

Minutes of Annual Meeting, etc 27 

Annual Statistical Report 35 

PART TWO— 

Try to Serve God and Mammon 85 

PART THREE— 

Addresses 86 

PART FOUR— 

Messages 91 

Preamble to the Constitution of The Beulah Anchorage 196 

Constitution of The Beulah Anchorage 197 

Rules and Regulations Governing the Home 201 

Officers of the Board of Managers 204 

Statement of Receipts and Expenditures 205 

Report of Charity Endorsement Committee, Chamber of 

Commerce 206 

Answer of Board of Trustees of The Beulah Anchorage 207 

Letter of Wilson ,S. Rothermel, District Attorney. 209 

Ministers Who Served at Sunday Afternoon Services and 

Committee 210 

Published by the Founder and President of 
The Beulah Anchorage Home 
5 MRS. M. L. LANDIS 



List of Illustrations 



Facing 
Page 

The Beulah Anchorage Title 

Mrs. M. L. Landis, the Founder 6 

Rev. S. B. Goff _ 12 

Rev. H. W. Weaver „ 22 

First Annex The Beulah Anchorage, 1912 24 

Mrs. M. L. Landis, ■. 26 

Rev. U. S. G. Renn, Organizer 28 

The Executive Committee and Board of Directors 30 

Mrs. Jere. G. Mohn, Vice-President 32 

Mrs. Eli W. Fox, Vice-President » 34 

Mrs. Charles Hahn, Treasurer „ 38 

Attorney Mayor Rick 44 

Matron Focht, 1908 48 

Matron Hildebrand, 1909 „ 49 

Matron Steinmetz, 1910-1914 60 

My New York Friends 52 

Emma, a Former Prominent Figure in Police Court 68 

Group of Inmates, 1911 „ 68 

Group of Inmates, 1912 98 

Group of Inmates, 1913 _ 126 

Let the Little Children Come Unto Me 137 

Group of Inmates, 1914 _ 148 

Group of Inmates, 1915.... 168 

Group of Inmates, 1917 „ „ 160 

Group of Inmates at Present „ 164 

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MRS. M. L. LANDIS, the Founder and President 
1907 
Being enriched in everything, to all bountifulness, which causeth 
through us thanksgiving to God. — 2 Cor. 9:11. 



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Matter of Fact and Common Sense 

A Rational Demonstration 

HE Beulah Anchorage Rescue Home was 
founded and established as an institution 
for homeless and fallen girls and women 
with a capacity of 60, and cared for more 
than 1,2 5 girls and women. Got it on 
an institutional plan and system and 
running order all to glorify God in 

redeeming the lost, and a sketch of the nine-year 

prison rescue work. 




Illustrated with Portraits 



"He that has pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord, 
and that he has given will he pay him again." Pro v. 18:17. 



INTRODUCTION 

IN religious matters we easily run into the extreme; nothing 
is more common than to see people embracing one error 
under the plausible pretence of avoiding another. 

Many, through fear of infidelity during the night of igno- 
rance and storm of passion, run against the wild rocks of 
superstition and enthusiasm, and frequently do it with such 
FORCE that they make shipwreck of the faith and have little of 
Godliness left, except a few broken pieces of its form; 
numbers, to shun that fatal error, steer quite a contrary course, 
supposing themselves guided by the compass of reason, when 
they only follow that of prejudice. With equal violence they 
dash their speculative brains against the opposite rocks of 
design and profaneness, disregarding appeal to common sense. 

The person and work of our Lord Jesus Christ as God 
mediator, or God in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, is 
the grand peculiarity of the Bible. Humility makes men like 
angels; pride makes angels to become devils — consider this, 
''God will hold one accountable for words and actions that 
would tend to hinder or discourage another. When one 
tantalizes and persecutes God's humble follower, he is doing it 
to God; when he mocks and scorns at His own true one, he is 
mocking at God. Be not deceived, God is not mocked; for 
whatsoever one soweth that shall they also reap. Gal. 6'J. 
"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, my 
brethren (or sisters) , ye have done it unto me." 

— Fletcher's Appeal. 



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PREFACE 

THIS Book is the result of experience, 
'"observation" and heart-to-heart talks 
by the author. Eleven years' work of 
the institution, 'The Beulah Anchorage Rescue 
Home," with many whose hopes and lives have 
been blighted because of the existing evil. 
Wayward, unfortunate and homeless girls and 
women that stood in NEED of a HOME — "to 
be rescued," to return to their reputation and 
character ONCE MORE. 

MRS. M. L. LANDIS. 



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Means of Progress 

Ye pompous sons reason idolized 

And vilified at once; of reason dead, 

Then defied, as monarchs were of old. 

Wrong not the Christian, think not reason yours, 

'Tis reason our great Master holds so dear, 

Tis reason's injured rights His wrath resents, 

Tis reason's voice obe3^'d His glorious crown. 

To give lost reason life. He pour'd His own; 

Believe and show the reason of a man ; 

Believe and taste the pleasure of a God; 

Through reason's wounds alone Thy faith can die. 

— Night Thoughts, Young. 



"The Son of man cometh; seek and save that which was 
lost." Luke 19:18. 




REV. S. B. GOFF 
Evangelist 

Ocean Grove, New Jersev 



PART ONE 



THE BLOOD OF CHRIST 

SERMON BY REV. S. B. GOFF, OF OCEAN GROVE, N. J. 

Scripture Lesson: "An^ to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant 
and to the blood of sprinkling that speakth better things than that of 
Abel."— Hebrews 12:14. 

The Book of Hebrews was written to the Jewish converts 
to Christianity. A number of these Christians were looking 
backward and were in danger of losing out, and this great, 
majestic Book of Hebrews was written to these backward 
looking Christians to tell the superiority of Christianity over 
Judaism; to tell how much better the new life is than the old. 
The key word to the book is the word ''Better." You will find 
these comparisons all the way through the book. The com- 
parison in this text is between the blood of Abel and the blood 
of Christ. For homiletic purposes, let us take the suggestion 
of the comparison of the blood of Christ with the blood of Abel. 

In the Garden of Eden, in the fall of man, we have an 
account and record of the origin and beginning of sin, of the 
awful tragedy of man's sin, that, as a free moral agent, he 
deliberately chose to violate God's will and brought sin into the 
world. Man did not have to sin, but man chose to sin. There 
we see the beginning of this awful break, this awful wrench, and 
here, in the death of Abel, we see sin expressing itself in the 
human race. We see sin beginning to work its way out, and 
oh, how it makes that awful feeling of horror come over us as 
we remember that it was in the attempt to worship, Satan came 
as an angel of light. Abel brought an oflfering of the first of 
his flock and Cain brought of the fruit of the ground. We fmd 
Abel's oflfering was acceptable, because it was oflfered in faith, 
while Cain's oflfering was not acceptable. You know how 
jealousy came into the heart of the older brother, his counte- 

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nance fell and he became very angry. God came to him and 
said, *'Why art thou wroth and why is thy countenance 
fallen ? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? " One 
day Cain went out into the field with his younger brother and he 
rose up against him and slew him. 

There lies the silent figure of the dead brother, with the 
blood oozing out on the soil. Cain leaves his brother there 
and runs and hides himself, just like his parents. Sin makes 
people hide in shame, fear, cowardice and timidity. God said, 
''Cain, what hast thou done? Where is thy brother? " Cain 
answered, "Am 1 my brother's keeper?" God said, "The 
voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.'* 

As we look upon the crimson blood of this dead brother, 
it crieth from the ground, and let us hear its message. 

First: — The blood of Abel speaks of jealousy, of that 
ignoble passion, that green-eyed monster, that envious, greedy, 
selfish, get-even spirit, that is the cause of so much destruction 
in the individual life, the home life, the church life and the 
community life. There was Saul, jealous of David when he 
heard the women singing how Saul had slain his thousands, but 
David his tens of thousand. There arose in his heart enmity, 
jealousy and hate, which finally led to suicidal death. Jealousy 
eats its way in the church life, in the home life and in the 
community life like a cancer, killing the religious life. 

The blood of Abel speaks of jealousy. There was that 
elder brother coming in from the field and he heard music and 
asked, "What is that going on about?" They replied, "Thy 
brother has come home and thy father has killed the fatted calf 
and called a feat for him." This brother was so angry that his 
father came out and plead with him, and in his jealousy he said, 
"I have served you all these years and you never gave me a 
feast." 



THE BLOOD OF CHRIST 15 

Jealousy, envy, suspicion and covetousness is the message 
of the blood of Abel, but, as we turn away from this tragedy to 
the Cross of Calvary, we see the blood flowing from the head, 
hands, side and feet of Jesus. This blood of Jesus speaks of 
divine cleansing. 

"There is a fountain filled with blood. 

Drawn from Immanuel's veins. 
And sinners plunged beneath that flood. 

Lose all their guilty stains." 

The blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sin — "just as I 
am, without one plea, but that Thy blood was shed for me." It 
regenerates us, makes us new creatures. When one comes to 
Him, though their sins be red like crimson, they become like 
the spotless whiteness of the snow. When I was conducting a 
meeting in Deven, Maryland, in our Blass class one day, a very 
sinful woman came to the altar to be saved. I talked and 
prayed with her, but she did not seem to be able to receive. 
Then I sang "The blood, the blood, is all my plea; hallelujah, 
it cleanseth me." As/ I sang it the light, liberty and freedom 
broke in joy and peace in her soul. 

Second: — Again, as we see the prostrate form of the 
murdered brother and see the blood matting up his hair and 
going deeper into the soil, it speaks of a brother's revenge — it 
speaks of the sin of that get-even, pay-back spirit. Oh, how 
that spirit of unforgiveness, of lack of love, of wrath and 
bitterness eats like a cancer into the lives of people and is like 
poison in the blood. There are people in the churches who 
hold bitterness in their lives. While they will speak to these 
people, they haven't any time for them. They speak in a 
formal, indifferent and cynical way, but they haven't any time 
to spend on these folks, They have that spirit which stops the 
revival and quenches the Spirit. If you have any spirit of 
revenge in your heart for another, realize that the Holy Spirit 



16 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

cannot use you and operate through you — that spirit blocks the - 
might operating and converting power of the Holy Spirit in a 
campaign like this. Realize that God cannot forgive you if 
you do not forgive others. If you pray God to forgive you 
and do not forgive, you ask God not to forgive you. A woman 
in one of my churches told me once that she was going to stop 
praying the Lord's Prayer because she could not say 'Torgive 
me my trespasses as I forgive those who trespass against me." 
When you harbor this spirit to pay back the one who has 
wronged you with his own coin and get even, it is like carrying 
a stick of dynamite in your pocket — it is like injecting a 
hypodermic of poison in your life. An Irishman had a habit 
of carrying his cigars around in his pocket, and every time he 
met a certain friend he would slap him on that pocket and 
knock the cigars all to pieces. One day he said he would fix 
his friend the next time — he would put a big stick of dynamite 
in his pocket. When you carry these things in your heart, you 
are doing just the same thing. There were two bitter enemies 
once and one became very ill and was dying. On his death 
bed, he sent for his enemy and asked him to forgive him, but he 
said, ''Remember, if I get well, this don't count." If that were 
not tragedy, it would be comedy. If this spirit gets hold of a 
person, it will drive him down. 

The blood of Abel speaks of revenge, but the blood of 
Christ speaks of loving pardon, divine forgiveness, divine 
liberty and freedom, because when the blood of Christ is applied 
to sin-stained souls, it not only cleanses it, but makes it as 
though you never sinned at all. In photography there is an 
acid which applied to red makes it white. When the blessed j 
blood of Christ is applied to a sin-stained, sin-marred soul, it I 
brings the whiteness of the snow of justification, forgiveness and ! 
pardon, because when God forgives you He makes it as though . 
you never sinned at all. He gives you a clean record, a clean 
slate and a clean sheet. These sins of your past life are on the 



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THE BLOOD OF CHRIST 17 

book against you, and they will continue to torment, lash and 
burn you through this life, in the judgment and through an 
endless eternity — an endless eternity, where the worm dieth 
not. The blood of Jesus speaks of divine cleansing, divine for- 
giveness and divine pardon. Friends, what you cannot do 
naturally in the matter of forgiving that person who has 
wounded and harmed you, you can do supernaturally through 
the blood of Christ. What you cannot do humanly you can 
do divinely through the blood of Christ. It is hard to forgive, 
but it is divine to forgive. The whole question is — Are you 
willing to let the Holy Spirit, through the blood, come into your 
life and give you the forgiving, gracious spirit of Jesus, who, 
after they had scourged Him, mocked Him and spat upon Him, 
cried out, ''Father, forgive them, for they know not what they 
do?" God cannot pardon you if you do not forgive others. 
He will give you the power and grace to forgive others. Grace 
means the unmerited favor which God bestows on you. If you 
died, you could not hope to go to heaven with that spirit of 
malice and revenge in your heart. Sam Holmes was in a prison 
in Kentucky. He had a friend named Lucien Young, who 
rescued many people from a sinking vessel, and for this the 
Governor granted his request to have Holmes pardoned. 
Young went fo the prison and asked Holmes what he would do 
if he were pardoned. He said the first thing he would do would 
be to kill the man who testified against him and then he would 
kill the judge who sentenced him. He was not ready for the 
pardon, and Young went out and tore up the pardon. 

If you hold revenge against any one, realize that the work 
of Christ is to repay. "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith 
the Lord." There was another man in prison, and one day a 
fine, noble looking man came through the prison, speaking to 
the men. This man was in for fifteen years, and as this 
gentleman reached the cell he asked him if he was sorry and 



18 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

wanted to be pardoned. He replied, "What's the use? " The 
man passed on, and, after he had gone, the keeper told him that 
that was the Governor of the State and he had a pardon in his 
pocket for him. Then the young man cried for the Governor 
to come back, but it was too late. God longs to pardon you, 
but if you won't receive it, He can't pardon you. The price of 
your pardon has been paid by Jesus — 

"Jesus paid it all. 

All to Him I owe. 
Sin had left a crimson stain, 
He washed it white as snow." 

As we look at the dead brother it tells us of jealousy, 
revenge and murder. "Thou shalt not kill." Let us remember 
that there are many ways you can murder people. There are 
sons and daughters here in Richmond tonight who are crushing 
the heart and life out of some dear mother. She is dying by 
inches, as they go farther into sin and turn the screw tighter 
and tighter. There are husbands in Richmond whose lives are 
crushing the life out of their wives. 'Thou shalt not kill." 
You are doing this with your sinful, rebellious life. If you do 
this, you will have remorse, regret and sorrow all your life. 
Death is the absence of life, and when man sinned he broke 
away from life, from God, the source of life, and he brought 
death. This is an object lesson, and so, in the death of Abel, 
we see the fruit and expression of sin — the sin of God's word 
that "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." 

Third: — The blood of Abel speaks of death and murder. 
"The wages of sin is death." "Why will you die?" Christ 
said, "I am come that you might have life," but you will not 
come unto Him that you might have life. As we turn from 
the murdered brother to the cross, we see that the blood of 
Jesus speaks of life — life eternal, immortal and forever, 
because Jesus said, "For God so loved the world that He gave 



THE BLOOD OF CHRIST 19 

His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should 
not perish, but have everlasting life." To know Him is eternal 
life. When you receive life through Him, through His blood, 
it means you begin to live forever and ever through the grace 
of Christ. You begin to live immediately and instantly — the 
very minute you are born again, you begin to live forever. 

A few years ago, when I was visiting in a Methodist 
Hospital, I saw a) young girl, about sixteen years of age, who 
had anemia, i. e., her blood was so thin and weak that she was 
dying gradually. She was so weak that she could hardly sit 
up. The doctor said that only one thing could save her, and 
that was for some one to give some of their blood for her. 
Her dear mother offered to give her blood, but she was not in a 
condition to do it; so another woman in the ward offered 
herself, and her condition was such that she could be received. 
They were both taken to the operating room and placed on 
cots side by side, and without either taking ether the operation 
was performed. The arm of the woman was opened at the 
elbow, the artery tapped and a tube inserted, which tube was 
placed in the arm of the young girl. Then they began to 
pump the blood into the arm of the girl. The two were lying 
in such a position that the woman could see the roses come into 
the cheeks of the girl, and she could see the girl practically 
returning to life. When the woman had given about a quart 
of her blood she fainted and they stopped the flow. Sometime 
ago I saw that girl, and she is strong and healthy now. I went 
back to the hospital, after this operation had been performed, 
to see the woman who had given her blood for this young girl, 
and I said, 'Tou look more spiritual than before." She told 
me of the blood transfusion and showed me her arm. I read 
the 55th chapter of Isaiah, ''He was wounded for our transgres- 
sions, etc.," and, as I read the wonderful message of the 
sacrificial death and the death of Christ that cleanses from the 



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stains of sin, from jealousy, revenge and death, the Holy Spirit 
came in wonderful, mighty, convicting power. 

Tonight the Holy Spirit is speaking to many hearts here, 
who have been holding jealousy, revenge and even murderous 
feelings in their hearts. Jesus wants you to come and receive 
this cleansing blood tonight. 



HUMILITY 

Do I really want to grow? Do I hunger 
and thirst after righteousness? Do I take 
pains for this self-cultivation? Do I most con- 
stantly and seriously attend all the means of 
grace, public as well as private and week-days 
as well as Sabbath days? Do I constantly and 
devoutly read and study the Holy Scriptures, 
not allowing other books to supplant the Bible? 
And do I search them to be made more holy? 
Do I court the society of the more established 
and spiritual members of the family of God? 
Do I set apart special times for self- 
examination, humiliation and prayer? Am I 
improved and made more holy and spiritual by 
my afflictions, disappointments and vexations? 
Reader, I beseech you, bring yourself to this 
touchstone. You cannot progress unless you 
are anxious to do so and use the means. 

II Cor. 6:18 And I will be a Father unto 
you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, 
saith the Lord Almighty. 

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Means of Obedience 

As Thou, oh Father, delightest not in the 
death of a sinner, much less in the destruction 
of a believer, grant, through Jesus Christ, the 
power of Thy Holy Spirit to follow the direc- 
tions laid down in this book. Impress all that 
read more and more deeply with the necessity 
of progress in the divine life. Enlighten each 
to understand its true nature. Bless to all the 
use of appropriate means for growth in grace. 
Help us, like the blessed one Paul, to forget the 
things that are behind and press the mark for 
the prize of our high calling in Christ Jesus. 
"Search the Scriptures; they are they which 
testify of me." John 5:39. 

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth 
shall make you free. John 8:32. 

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REV. H. W. WEAVER 



Our dear Rev. H. W. AVeaver, asleep in Jesus in the year of our 
Lord 1920. In her bereavement and loss may his dear wife ever re- 
member that they will soon meet in the promised home eternal in glory 
forever. 



A LETTER BY REV. HORACE WEAVER 

Dear Friend :— 

In the province of our kind Heavenly Father, a movement 
was inaugurated in 1907 in our city for the establishment of a 
rescue home for unfortunate girls and women. It resulted in 
the purchase of the fine large dwelling at No. 417 South Fifth 
Street. 

The need of such an institution has been keenly felt by 
many of the best people of Reading, and we feel that the 
Beulah Anchorage is meeting this need. 

The institution is strictly undenominational and is open to 
all unfortunate girls and women. 

Religious services are conducted every Lord's day after- 
noon and are in charge of the ministers of the various de- 
nominations of our city. 

The Home as yet has no endowment, but is supported 
entirely by contributions from friends of the institution and one 
thousand dollars State appropriation for two years (five 
hundred per year) . These contributions are inadequate to meet 
the constantly growing needs; and after much thought and 
prayer we have decided to inaugurate a new system by which 
we hope to meet the running expenses and get the needed 
building fund. 

We kindly ask you to lend a hand, to give us a dollar or 
more, as the Lord may direct you, for the building fund, or 5o 
cents for this book, for maintenance. 

Wishing God's richest blessings upon you and your home, 
I am yours in the interest of unfortunate girls and women, 

MRS. M. L. LANDIS, 
President and Founder of Beulah Anchorage, 
23 417 South Fifth Street, Reading, Pa. 



A LETTER OF APPRECIATION 

By an Unknown Friend 

Mrs. M. L. Landis, President and Founder of The Beulah 
Anchorage : — 

All great workers for humanity have prejudice to contend 
with. 

The prejudice against Mrs. Landis comes from misunder- 
standing. In the first place, she never advertised in any paper 
but the "Monthly Report;" all the rest came from other sources. 
She is honest, self-respecting and of strict integrity. She is 
loved and respected by those who know her WELL; she is 
sensible and of sound judgment and possesses enough education 
to correct Secretary and Treasury books, which were kept 
strictly and nicely by each officer this year, and she is well able 
to superintend the work, and always has plans to move forward. 
This Home is getting along nicely; alterations nearly finished; 
the Board is united all this year, the Matron and President 
always co-operating about the Matron's work. The Matron is 
a home missionary worker, conscientious and faithful to her 
convictions of right, and always ready to assist the needy and 
unfortunate. The inmates are trained to be neat and self- 
respecting and to be good housekeepers; they are also taught to 
be good Christian women and young girls. 

Mrs. Landis is an evangelist — a consecrated Christian 
woman, just the woman we need at the head of this Rescue 
Mission for a President. 

The citizens of Reading owe Mrs. Landis a great debt of 
gratitude for what she has done for this city. 

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A LETTER OF APPRECIATION 25 

The Beulah Anchorage is a Home that Reading has long 
been in need of for its homeless women and girls. 

It is a Christian institution, incorporated by the State of 
Pennsylvania, December 9, 1907. 

God bless the people who respond with help and aid the 
cause, as we did not get an appropriation of money yet and 
have to struggle along as best we can. 

This Home is in its infancy, and the work can only be done 
step by step, as we must be careful so the building is cared for 
and both ends meet. 

The Board Ladies gave a note of thanks for the "unknown 
friend's" encouraging letter. 

By a fallen one to express her gratitude to one who loved 
ME and stood by ME when I was a helpless drunkard. The 
Beulah Anchorage, which cared and protected me and pointed 
me to Christ, who took the appetitie for drink out of me, and I 
repented and He forgave me. A Home where Christ is meet- 
ing the perishing to be rescued. Thank God. This volume is a 
sketch affectionately dedicated to the truth of my work on this 
earth which God placed me here for; to be of service for Him. 
In His name. 



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THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 



TRUSTEE BOARD 

From 1914 to 1918 

President 

Mrs. M. L. Landis 

Vice-President 

Mrs. J. G. Mohn 

Recording Secretary 

Mrs. D. K. Kauffman 



Mrs. 



Treasurer 
Charles Hahn 
Trustees 
Mrs. Thomas A. Willson 
Mrs. J. B. Knorr 
Mrs. D. B. Dunkleberger 
Mrs. Annie D. Koch 
Mrs. Eli W. Fox 



OFFICERS OF THE 
Shall Constitute 
President 
Mrs. M. L. Landis 
Vice-President 
Mrs. J. G. Mohn 
Vice-President 
Mrs. Eli W. Fox 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
the Board of Managers 

Recording Secretary 
Mrs. D. K. Kauflfman 

Treasurer 
Mrs. Charles Hahn 
Corresponding Secretary 
Mrs. Elizabeth Gerndt 



EXECUTIVE 
Mrs. M. L. Landis 
Mrs. J. G. Mohn 
Mrs. J. B. Knorr 
Mrs. B. H. Miller, 

Mohnton 
Mrs. D. K. Kauffman 
Mrs. Charles Hahn 
Miss Elizabeth Gerndt 
Mrs. Thomas A. Willson 
Mrs. R. B. Dunkleberger 
Mrs. Eli W. Fox 
Mrs. Annie D. Koch 
Mrs. Alice Smeltzer 



COMITTEE 
Mars. W. Schaffer 
Mrs. W. R. Kirn 
Mrs. F. C. Shirk 
Mrs. Adam Kolb 
Mrs. Anna Spyker 
Mrs. A. B. Eberly, 

Lancaster 
Mrs. E. K. S. Seltzer, 

Ephrata 
Mrs. Emma Bird, 

Boyertown 
Mrs. P. Loose 
Miss Mabel Williams 



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MRS. M. L. LANDIS 

President and Founder of Beulah Anchorage Rescue Home, 417 South 

Fifth Street, and its Organization From June 6, 1907, 

until August 1, 1918, Reading, Pa. 

Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. 

I John 3-13; John 15-18-21; Math. 10:16-17-18-19-20. 

Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life. 
Rev. 2-10. 



MINUTES OF BEULAH ANCHORAGE 27 

Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Beulah Anchorage 
Rescue Home 

December 27, 1912. 

Annual meeting of the Beulah Anchorage was held at 417 
South Fifth Street, Wednesday, December 27, at 7 o'clock P. 
M., Mrs. M. L. Landis, President, presiding. Hymn, "Nearer, 
My God, to Thee." Scripture was read by the President from 
the second chapter of Hosea, of which the five last verses were 
the call to the founding of this work and home. Prayer by 
the Secretary. Introduction by the President, which was far 
reaching in its petitions for the work and workers. 

The following paragraph was used as an illustration by 
the President in her address : 

Quoting Victor Hugo's thrilling description of a drowning 
man — crying in a monstrous deep — struggling to defend him- 
self, and finding no man to help, he yields to despair, abandons 
the contest and is rolled into the depths. 

The speaker used this as an illustration of many on an 
island who were sinking like this man, but into a sea which 
leads to moral and eternal death. 

This door of blessing stands open to save them; they need 
spiriting and moral therapeuty more than medicine; something 
definite to anchor to; something that is guaranteed to hold. As 
quinine cures malaria, the religion of Jesus Christ cures alco- 
holism and kindred sins. We should not be discouraged if we 
do not see every time visible results of the work. We sow the 
seed and are fighting to win; we fight with God for His children. 
The greater spiritual results of the past year placed a greater 
responsibility upon the visitors. 

The reports of the Executive Committee and Trustees 
were read. 



28 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

The reports of the monthly meetings during the past 
year which showed the good results, were kindly published by 
the daily papers. 

The people having been led to realize more and more the 
extent of the work by the giving of generous donations from 
friends. 

It has indeed been touching to listen to the weak strength- 
ened, the sick cheered, the erring ones led into straight paths. 

People become more deeply impressed each year with the 
absolute necessity of this noble and neglected work. It has 
always been kept a constant prayer by the President and 
workers than many auxiliaries of the churches should include it 
as their home mission work; to plan to donate canned goods, 
and clothing such as underwear, stockings, waists, skirts for 
girls and women, and clothing for babies, as they are usually 
poorly clothed and without a change. It must be remembered 
that it is a constant change of some of them, by coming and 
going, and others be rescued and trained and placed in good 
Christian families. 

If those who are in a position to give would realize the I 
imperative nature of the call, no doubt the money would be 
forthcoming. 

There is no more crying need anywhere than for a home 
of this character for unfortunate, homeless and fallen girls and 
women, and such discharged from the hospitals, still too weak 
to work, or have a little one to care for, and no friends, and 
without money to pay for a night's lodging. 

The Lord gave me His command: "Take ye from among 
you an oflfering unto the Lord, and whosoever is of willing 
heart, let him bring it." I realize that God wanted me to 



I called a meeting to organize Tlie Beulah Anchorage. I 
also called Rev. Renn to come to the first meeting, to organize 
the same. At this first meeting I was appointed as President 
Pro Tem. and there were also Trustees appointed. 

It was decided to hold a meeting shortly thereafter for the 
purpose of organizing fully. At this second meeting a Secre- 
tary and Treasurer was appointed, also a committee on Consti- 
tution and By-Laws. 

Just before Rev. Mr. Renn fell asleep in Jesus he attended 
the United Brethren Conference held in Reading. He again 
visited the Home, going through the whole place, and expressed 
his pleasure at hearing of souls being saved nearly every week. 
At the time of his death he was pastor of a church in 
Harrisburg, Pa. 




REV. U. S. G. RENN 

Organizer of the Beulah Anchorage Rescue Home, June 6, 1907 
"Asleep in Jesus" 



MINUTES OF BEULAH ANCHORAGE 29 

take an oflfering unto the Lord, and as you read this may it stir 
your hearts and turn over the needed sum for this noble cause. 
It is no county home or a business house, but a place to rescue 
and train the girls, then hand them over to some good family 
as a girl and woman who gained reputation and recommenda- 
tion to live a Christian life. 



Board Ladies' Endorsement 

Be it Resolved, That it is the sense of the Board that the 
great service performed by Mrs. M. L. Landis, in founding the 
Beulah Anchorage and developing it through her untiring 
efforts from small beginnings to its present high state of 
efficiency where she left it August 1, 1918, the dormatory 
temporarily furnished for the poor and needy and unfortunate, 
should be endorsed to be recorded in this book in order that 
the example of a woman who dedicated her life to the uplift 
and redemption of unfortunate girls and women of our com- 
munity shall not be forgotten, but shall be held in reverence; 
and be it further 

Resolved, That the Board desires Mrs. Landis, the Founder 
and President of the Beulah Anchorage, 417 South Fifth Street, 
Reading, Pa., also the endorser of this book, recognizing her 
long sacrifice and experience and aptitude in rescue work, and 
that the public which so kindly helped her also co-operate in 
performing the high duties imposed upon the institution by its 
charter; and be it further 

Resolved, The two Vice Presidents and Secretary and 
Treasurer endorse and kindly stand by: Mrs. Jere. G. Mohn, 
Mrs. E. W. Fox, Mrs. Charles Hahn and Mrs. D. K. Kauffman. 

The profits of this book, if any, shall be used for benevo- 
lence and charity for the poor. 



30 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

Through Prison Work— "The Call" From God 

The Founder and President of the Beulah Anchorage and 
its organization, Mrs. M. L. Landis, received the call to the 
Anchorage after serving nine years as Evangelist Superintendent 
of the W. C. T. U. of Berks County Prison and Alms House 
evangelistic work. My annual report to the County Conven- 
tion ? " The Deputy Warden said he was sorry to tell me ''ik^l 
18 prisoners converted during the year and created in me a 
strong conviction for a Rescue Home for the homeless and 
fallen and unfortunates. Two women in one cell — pregnant — 
when their time expired kindly asked me to find a place for 
them, and the Deputy Warden also asked me ''if 1 could not find 
some way, they have to put them out on the public." I was 
taken sick and when I came again I asked, "What became of 
those two ladies who took Christ in their life, in their condi- 
tion ? " The Deputy Warden said he was sorry to tell me "they 
sat two nights in the Park here, and further I cannot give you 
any information." It worried me so I could not sleep for nights 
to think about such dear souls, so unfortunate and worried and 
homeless and next to helpless, and I commenced to ask God to 
make it plain to me and give me a message, as I knew I was 
poor and could not provide for them under the circumstances. 
It took more than a visit or bouquet of flowers or a treat of 
cream and cake or prayers and Bible instructions. It created 
in me a strong conviction for a home for the homeless and 
fallen and unfortunate girls and women to rescue. I then com- 
menced to ask God to make it plain to me and give me a mes- 
sage through His precious word. I knelt down and asked, 
"Lord, make it plain to me as I open the Bible." The Book of 
Hosea 2: 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, "Hear Israel which was a whore- 
dom nation. After a consecration of my life and consent of 
my husband, I stepped out on the word of God, which proved 
faithful and successful, with the aid of such that helped and lent 
their assistance, for which I tender my thanks. May God re- 
ward "each hundredfold, is my sincere prayer." 




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A Sketch of My Experience 

I thank my Lord and Saviour to call me in my youth, when 
I came to Him with a penitent heart. He forgave me all, and 
gave me the assurance that I am His child born of the Spirit 
when in my teens, and I enjoyed Christian life all the way and 
consecrated eight years later, and God sanctified me and Christ 
Divine lifted me over every hill and block that the evil put in 
my way. Ever since I was after souls for heaven. God called 
me in prison work when I came to Reading, and I succeeded in 
getting in as a private evangelist worker with those unfortunates 
by the tempter of deceit, and the Lord gave me souls for Christ. 
Some returned home and joined the Church and got baptized, 
and others returned to their families and lived happily. I love 
to search the Scriptures, which was my delight, and did fer- 
vently pray that no false light or doctrine may mislead me out 
of the way of salvation. Obedience was my delight through the 
Holy Spirit. Divine mercies kindle hearts into gratitude and 
praise. When I consecrated my life to work for Christ to win 
souls, it was my delight and power. 

He put in me to draw souls unto God, our Creator, which 
were on the downward road. When God called me for the 
Beulah Anchorage Rescue Home I felt it was a struggle, but be- 
loved. If I had known what I had to meet through some office- 
seeking prejudice and misunderstanding I would have shrunk — 
I would have cried to the Lord, ''Deliver me;" and if I had at 
any time doubted the call God gave me I would have run, but 
I made sure before I started out. Many dear people told me 
there is no one to take your place and do the work that you 
did. When I gave up I did not understand it, but I do now — 
it takes slum rescue workers. 



32 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

How It Was Founded 

Founded in Panic Times — Harbster Mansion at Half Price 

The Beulah Anchorage Rescue Home was purchased for 
$6,000.00, in November, 1907, and ;^2, 500.00 was paid April 
4th, 1908. 

People became deeply impressed each year with the abso- 
lute necessity of this noble and neglected work. 

It has always been a constant prayer by the President 
and workers that auxiliaries of the Churches should include it as 
their home mission work, and it got the plans there also. 
People understood and sent children's underwear, stockings, 
waists and skirts for girls and women and clothing for babies, as 
they are usually poorly clothed and without change. It must and 
was remembered that it is a constant change of some of them 
by coming and going and others be rescued and trained and 
placed in good Christian families. Many, after conversion, 
want to go home. The change took place in their hearts and 
life, and then they were anxious to have them come home. 



Annual Meeting 

Reading, Pa., January 1, 1914. 

The Beulah Anchorage Organization held its annual four 
year term expired meeting December 26, 1913, at the Beulah 
Anchorage Home, 417 South Fifth Street, Reading, Pa., at 7 
P. M., to adopt the nominated ballot of the Executive Com- 
mittee, including five new members. The Trustee Board and 
its officers and executive officers were elected, which constitute 
the Board of Managers. 

The election was very interesting and the reports were 
splendid and inspired all to serve another term of four years 
from January 1st, 1914, to January 1st, 1918. 



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MRS. JERE. G. MOHN 
Vice President 

'All my trust in Thee is stayed. Thy rich promises are sure. 



MINUTES OF BEULAH ANCHORAGE 33 

The past period term seemed short to all the ladies of the 
Executive Committee through the many blessings we shared 
and the many hardships we passed through. Through it all we 
were kept faithful and loyal to the cause, for which we can say 
the Lord blessed the efforts of each one that was interested in 
the result, which created the great courage to stand together 
another period of four years. Thanks to our dear Lord and 
Saviour and Jesus Christ. 

Let us do good to all men. Gal. 6:10. 

The night cometh in which no man can work. John 9:4. 

The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than 
when it bends towards the sun of righteousness. Crosses and 
changes are our lot as long as we sojourn here, but since the 
Saviour changes not, what have the saints to fear? 

The last annual meeting of the Founder was held De- 
cember 26, 1917. President Mrs. Landis was re-elected and 
her board and executive for the coming four years, January 1, 
1918, to 1922. June 1, 1918, was turned over to the next 
party, which took eflfect August 1, 1918. The Founder earn- 
estly prayed for their success. I stepped out August 1, 1918, 
which you will find later explained in this volume. 



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MRS. ELI W. FOX 
Vice President 

Into thine hands I commit my spirit; thou 
hast redeemed me, O Lord, God of truth. 
Psahns 31:5. 



ANNUAL 



STATISTICAL REPORT 



OF 



®Iy^ l^ulaljf Aturlfrrrag^ 




417 SOUTH FIFTH STREET 
READING, PA. 



36 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

LAST REPORT 
BEULAH ANCHORAGE 



ANNUAL REPORT OF MAINTENANCE 

Expenses from May 3 1 , 1 9 1 7, to May 31, 1918: 

Dry goods, shoes, etc $ 562.21 

Fuel 387.05 

Lighting 69.08 

Groceries 895.72 

Ice 6. 1 6 

Medical supplies 60.42 

Repairs to building 935.43 

Matrons 365.00 

Stamps and printing 340.40 

Conveyance 23.00 

Telephones 58.53 

Interest on mortgage 225.00 

Insurance 1 0.25 

P. O. rent 4.00 

Clerical — by the hour 2 7.25 

Water tax '. 1.06 



Total expenses $3,970.56 

Total income 2,436.38 



Deficit, paid out of building fund $1,534.18 

Contributions and donations $1,436.38 

State appropriation, (annually) 1,000.00 

Total income $2,436.38 

1917-1918 

Number of inmates — *'in" 118 

Number treated free 116 

Part-pay inmates 2 

Meals served 1 8,25o 



ANNUAL STATISTICAL REPORT 37 

Money borrowed each year (more or less) $1,534.18 

Cost per head, per day -.. 77c 

Percentage free 98% 

Capacity of place 60 

Accounts for the year were audited by the State Auditor, 
quarterly. 

BEULAH ANCHORAGE 
417 South Fifth Street, Reading, Pa. 



BUILDING FUND 



May 31, 1917, to May 31, 1918. 
The present statistics relative to Beulah Anchorage, No. 
417 South Fifth Street, Reading, Pa.: 

The purpose as described in charter is to provide a home 
or refuge, temporary and permanent, for homeless or friendless 
girls and women. Funds secured by public subscriptions, dona- 
tion or bequest. 

Date or organization or foundation — June 6, 1907. 

Date of charter — December 9, 1907. 

Value of building $ 6,000.00 

Value of ground 5,000.00 

First Annex, 1913 3,500.00 

Second Annex, 1916 4,860.83 

Heater and heating First Annex 556.00 

Heater and heating Second Annex 490.00 

New heater in the main building 279.00 

Addition and repair of dining room 450.00 

Extension and repair of kitchen 567.41 

Addition, coat storage, bedroom and partition 750.00 

Wall 1 — 2 Annex 150.00 

Fire escape 130.00 

$22,733.24 
Total debt left mortgage of $ 4,500.00 



38 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

FORM OF BEQUEST 



1 give and bequeath to Beulah Anchorage, 417 South 
Fifth Street, Reading, Pa., the sum of $ , to 

be invested as the Board of Trustees may direct, incorporated 
under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania. Office in the City 
of Reading, Pa. 



Explanation Why I Resign 

The term from 1914 to 1918 passed by January 1, 1918, 
and 1 was elected for another term, from January 1, 1918, 
to January 1, 1921. Prominent people came and brought 
their contributions and asked me kindly not to resign, as they 
had heard of my resignation, and said, *Tou now have the 
confidence of the people." But I tried to tell them I had a 
nervous breakdown. They said, "Get help, but do not resign," 
and the Auditor of the State encouraged me to stay. He said, 
**You are needed here." "Well," I said, "if I stay, my next 
work is to get the books," as the State had asked me to do. 
"Well, then, please do not resign." 

The oldest of the W. C. T. U. told me kindly not to resign, 
but take a rest. I was afraid I could not do justice to the work, 
and gave way to bodily weakness before the Lord told me so; 
and it came to me to get up a book of the eleven years in 
which I had founded and planned the institutional system. 
That some one may take up the work that remains is my earnest 
prayer. Had I remained six months longer I could have se- 
cured the rescue workers who would have been willing to run 
it as it was founded. 




MRS. CHARLES HAHN 

Treasurer 

Dav shall come in the morning. Ps. 30:5. 



THE B. A. INSTITUTIONAL PLANS ACCOMPLISHED 39 

Statement of Building and Maintenance 

This statement is to explain to the contributors who did 
not get acquainted with the place, to show the many friends 
that gave us a helping hand what the Founder and her Board 
of Directors did with the funds the dear people and State had 
trusted to us during the eleven years of establishing this Rescue 
Home and soul saving station during the alterations and ad- 
ditions of two annexes. All this time the rescued were not 
neglected. There was always worship in the morning and 
evening and special meeting between, and Sunday services. All 
the newcomers received the benefit, and sheltered ones. God 
blessed all effort and manifested Himself to this Home for the 
dear ones down and out. It was wonderful what God did in 
those eleven years. It would make twelve volumes to have 
it all in print. 



The B. A. Institutional Plans Accomplished 

A Sketch of the Plans by the Founder — "Day and Night" — For This 
Kind of Rescue Work — Institutional Building Plans — A Home for 
the Fallen and Unfortunate and Homeless 

The Founder purchased the Harbster Mansion, including a 
vacant lot alongside, for the Beulah Anchorage Rescue Home 
and began to plan for the institution. Transoms were put in each 
room above the doors of the main building, and a second floor 
extra bath room for the Superintendent and Matron, and an 
addition of a coat and storage room, and a single bed room next 
to the old bath room for such that come in under the influence 
of drink, and a joined portico the whole length to clean cloth. 
The whole house was painted outside. Three years later the 
first annex was built and windows grated, some halfway, and 
the dormitory windows grated so the children cannot drop 
down and the wayward cannot disgrace the work and Home 
before the public. This grating was also a protection for the 



40 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

Superintendent from such men who demanded their families 
and wanted to manage them without the aid of an officer. 
A third bath room was placed on the second floor and each 
hall had a large linen closet, and an addition to the dining 
room. Above the dining room was a wired porch for recrea- 
tion — a quiet spot, away from the slum, and free to the breeze 
from east to west. The houses were four feet apart — open 
space. 

Carpenters had made five settees out of bedsteads for the 
porch as a donation. Six years later was erected the last wing 
for the needed sewing rooms on each floor and laundry in the 
basement with a laundry stove, large boiler, two twin tubs and 
bath rooms, which the doctors admired and called sanitary, for 
such down and out girls who come to clean them. One sewing 
room on each floor, with three large windows and a door out 
to the yard by way of the fire escape; and two closets in each 
sewing room two single bed rooms and one double bed room, 
with closets on each floor — all in the last wing. Large window 
and large transoms enter halls; fire escapes meet the door of 
each floor of the sewing room. Mountain breezes, fine lawn 
and terrace of flowers around and a flower bed, and an addi- 
tion to the kitchen with extra windows; summer porch to use 
in many ways; a green cellar, wood and coal in the main build- 
ing cellar in front; in the first annex a storage room for oil, and 
such furniture as it is desired to save and in need of mending 
and repair. 

The sewing room plan was for all inmates to have the priv- 
ilege to do their mending and sewing in charge of the Assistant 
Matron; to keep order a few hours every day, if the Matron 
directs so. Also to organize sewing circles from different 
churches. I count to get eight churches, a few people of each 
church to take part. They would only need to meet once every 
two months. Each church to count as one circle and to meet 
weekly to prepare some sewing to give to the girls. Also plans 



THE B. A . INSTITUTIONAL PLANS ACCOMPLISHED 41 

for anniversary sewing. There were also a few rooms with 
grated windows for those who make special trouble and to 
complete their training and as a helping hand to manage and 
have full control over all different waywards. I had control, 
and it led to real conversion of some; if weak-minded, then only 
a help. A fire escape and high fence to preserve the girls from 
the slums in the rear. Cement pavements front and rear to 
drain the water, fine work, by Mr. Frank Walter, and reason- 
able. All paid for; only a mortgage of ^4,500 left when the 
Founder stepped out, August 1, 1918, and valued at 
$22,733.24. 

As 3^ou will see on page 36 of this book, the last an- 
nual report is given. Mostly temporarily furnished, a ca- 
pacity of 60 for the poor to accommodate them, all clean and 
sanitary from the third floor to the basement and cellars and 
dormitory, with eight closets; also five beds for the sheltered 
ones. In the main building, third floor, inmates were turned in 
by City Hall any hour of the night; or from the highway by 
their relation, and often a mother, with three to five children, 
was glad to get shelter and clean beds until their families could 
be pacified by officials or through Beulah Home, and the Home 
was at all times ready for inspection. Every girl had her daily 
work and all were examined by the Associate of Charity or a 
physician called by the Matron. An extra cleaning every Friday 
and Saturday morning; work all done by noon; always attended 
to the spiritual part. Ex-Mayor Rick had a single room painted 
and floor stained and decorated and furnished with all white 
enamel furniture, spring and bedding, mirror and stand, chairs 
and rugs. Also, W. S. Tragle furnished the next room and 
painted and stained the floor; also an all white enameled iron 
bed and stand, chair and mirror and ruggs, all made to order. 
Mr. Tragle superintended the ordering of the two rooms, the 
one furnished by ex-Mayor Rick and the one by himself, and 



42 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

these were to be a sample for others to do likewise. All of 
which the Ladies' Board were very proud of. Mrs. G. B. Knorr 
also furnished a fine room, and the G. M. Britton Company, 
Fourth and Penn Streets, furnished a double room and large 
rug, and many others sent pieces of furniture, including table 
and sideboard, dishes of all kinds and kitchen supplies. Thank 
God. 

All at once I got a nervous shock, and it got the best of 
me and made me willing to resign. Though if I took new faith 
and advice I could have stayed another year, as adviced by a 
councilman and the Auditor of the State. When he heard my 
next plan is, ''If I stay to get the books the way the State ask 
for," he said: "Madam, don't resign; you are needed here. Take 
a few months off and recover." My son met the Auditor a few 
times before, when he audited the books at the Beulah Anchor- 
age Home, as the office was at the Beulah Anchorage. My son 
asked, *'How are mother's books?" and the Auditor replied, 
"Fine; she gets along all right." But when I mentioned to 
him about changing the books, he was pleased so much more. 
I told him I had plans to go on with this kind of work. I did 
not plan for a boarding house or county home, but for rescue 
work — great work for those unfortunate five and seven mothers 
with children at the time, and I did not plan to beautify, but 
for comfort and home-like for the poor and needy; not the kind 
of work the Y. W. C. A. does, but for the needy poor and un- 
fortunates, which my heart was all wrapped up in. But I gave 
way too soon to bodily weakness, and did not even take courage 
through advice which was kindly given me, and I did not mean 
to be contrary; only I was down and out bodily and had more 
faith in others than in myself. 

The window gratings were for the fallen to avoid disgrace 
before the public, as men came and demanded their compan- 
ions and others their families when under the influence of drink. 



TAKE TIME TO UNDERSTAND 43 

I told them to come when sober, then be rescued, then they can 
be temperate, and if not obeyed to leave quietly. Then I re- 
ferred to those bars which get them into trouble;' also to save 
the officials and me. But when I did need the officials they were 
very kind to me and the Home. I am grateful to all those who 
stood by me, contributing and otherwise, all such that continued 
until I resigned on account of ill health after I done faithful 
work for eleven years. Many unfortunate and wayward and 
homeless were cared for and rescued — over l,25o girls and 
women. 

The Founder and Matrons handled all inmates and won 70 
per cent, and all received the same help in days gone by. May 
all remember the Beulah Rescue Home and, if backslid, repent 
again and again until they get strong enough to stand and to 
make heaven, where temptation and the demon has no power 
to do any harm. 

All redeemed are alike in the home above — no down and 
out, no Pharisees — all must repent and be washed in the blood 
of the Lamb to enter the portals of glory. All shall have a white 
robe and a crown of victory. Jesus stoops to the lowest on 
earth to heal and to save and command them to go and sin 
no more. Thanks to God for the blessed Son Jesus, slain for 
the sins of the world. Why not all come to Him and be saved. 



"Take Time to Understand" 

It is the purpose of the Founder, after having worked 
among the drunkards and crimnial classes twenty years in the 
City of Reading, nine years of prison work, such as included 
evangelistic services and cottage prayer meetings, and eleven 
years to found the Beulah Anchorage and its organization, and 
the Home developing through untiring efforts from small be- 



44 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

ginnings to its present high state of efficiency where I left it, to 
dedicate her life to the uplift and redemption of unfortunate 
girls and women of the community. Many of the vilest were 
rescued, and of the good homeless ones some were also con- 
verted in these eleven years of rescue atmosphere. A fine sys- 
tem for this kind of rescue work was installed over the building, 
and God only knows, for words can't express what was done in 
these eleven years with the small income available, and all the 
girls and women that are living may get to work to live up to 
its teachings. I know many do, but I am praying for all to do 
so. Quite a few passed over. Some who were brought in and 
changed, took Christ into their hearts and were willing to make 
things right and live right. They were excused from any fur- 
ther proceedings, as their fathers or friends protected them. 
When I attended, at Harrisburg, the State Board of Charity 
Committee meeting I was asked what method I used to protect 
those girls. I told them the first few years the police stood by 
us faithfully, when I noticed their work increased and they were 
often too busy. Though the police were always ready to serve 
when we were in need of them. I planned gratings at the win- 
dows for protection, and it did the work fine. These window 
gratings did not interfere with the first protection. There are 
some who have the opinion that I forced some to go forward 
to get converted. We did have the method to come forward. 
I told them, ''Repent to God and God may answer your prayer 
in your bed chamber or in the place anywhere," only so they 
got the evidence that they are forgiven, born of the Spirit. 
John 3 : 6. It's so easily misunderstood and some people came 
and asked the way. I never tried to force anyone, as I would 
rather have an understanding than a misunderstanding. God's 
conviction first, then surrender. 

Well, dear readers of this book, I would like you to get the 
help, whatever is your need. Those souls came willingly to the 




ATTORNEY WILLIAM RICK (Ex-Mayor), 
Reading, Pa. 



THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE RESCUE HOME 45 

feet of Jesus when under right conviction. It don't take the 
Lord long to answer the prayer when you are willing to come 
down at the feet of Jesus, where the living water flows. From 
youth up it was my delight to serve my Jesus I loved so much. 
Learn to know Him ''that sticketh closer than a brother;" and 
I chose the narrow cross-bearing way of the King of Glory. 
Praise God, the evil one was not my friend, as I was always 
somewhere to tell someone to accept Jesus and live for Him 
''as His faithful servants," though the evil one had his people 
"and others" to have a good time and tried to get enough mud 
to bury me. But God lifted me and gave me grace and power 
to roll on with the chariot over devil and all. I have my eyes 
fixed on Jesus my Lord. "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and 
today and forever." Heb. 13:8. "The things which are im- 
possible with men are possible with God." Luke 18:2 7. "The 
grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men." 
Titus 2:11. 



The Beulah Anchorage Rescue Home 

Its origin and history and the object of this organization is 
set forth in its charter for a home for girls and women. (No 
limit to age.) 

The Founder and President of Beulah Anchorage Home 
and its organization, Mrs. M. L. Landis, received the call to do 
this work in a message from God through His word in the Book 
of Hosea 2:19, 20, 21, 22 and 23. After a consecration of her 
life and the consent of her husband, she stepped out at the word 
of God and proved faithful and successful, with the aid of such 
who lent their assistance, for which she is very grateful They 
continued to do so until she stepped out in August, 1918. After 
the Lord had used her in mission work for nine years with suc- 
cess, she felt the need of this mission work of rescuing the fallen 



46 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

and perishing. The Home was non-sectarian. It receives any 
girl or woman who needs aid and desires to take Christ in her 
heart and life. Not only is this work intended to help the home- 
less, friendless, fallen and unfortunate girls and women of our 
city, but it is the aim and desire to reach a helping hand to 
others through the entire State. A door of blessing to such who 
are sincerely willing to reform and to be transformed by the 
power of God, to attain a commendable Christian character 
"once" more, to obtain honorable positions, whereby they may 
become self-supporting, and to rescue others who have fallen 
by the way. This is called a House of Prayer and is what it is 
entirely through prayer. We cannot begin to tell how the Lord 
has taught us to quietly trust Him. "In quietness and in confi- 
dence shall be your strength." Isa. 30:15. "When we walk 
in the path of obedience we always have our Father's smile." It 
is so blessed to trust the Lord in everything and for everything; 
for wisdom, strength, guidance and supplies, helpers and means. 
How marvelously he sends help just at the right time. This 
Home is situated on one of the main streets of the city, with the 
City Hall on the north and slums on the south, and last, but not 
least, we have nice large rooms with high ceilings throughout 
the house. We also have a fine city water supply. We are 
protected by the police, who always respond kindly when 
needed, for which we are very grateful 

The Home is non-sectarian as to its teaching and spirit, and 
it is not connected with any other organization. 

The word of God and prayer morning and evening, family 
worship, spiritual counsel and encouragement are means of un- 
told blessings to the inmates and sheltered ones. Many are the 
troubles and burdens from which God is pleased to deliver' 
honest and earnest seekers for light and Himself. 

The regular religious services appointed for prayer and 
teaching conducted in the lecture room are abundantly owned 



THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE RESCUE HOME 47 

by the Lord unto edification of His children and for the salva- 
tion of souls. 

The teaching of the Home aims to furnish a short and 
simple, but thorough, spiritual training by using the normal 
method. Much advice and prayerful attention is given to the 
spiritual condition of the inmates. The Bible is the main text 
book. Some wonderful conversons took place in the Home; 
some who stand and live for Christ today. The efforts that 
have been put forth have been crowned with abundant blessing 
by Him who favors them, who honor His word and live to obey 
His commands. To all our friends in this city and surround- 
ing places, who have helped us by prayer, offerings or service, 
we extend our sincere thanks. May the rich blessings of God 
abundantly rest upon them and repay them. 

Our work has not been without its trials and discourage- 
ments, but these only draw us closer to Him whose faithfulness 
never changes. 

The Sabbath meetings were well attended and much ap- 
preciated, and many are the notes of praise to be heard from 
time to time by those who have been benefited. Ella, an in- 
mate, a week before she went to the hospital, gave her testi- 
mony that she knows Jesus and if she dies she knows she will 
go to Jesus. She got the flu a short time afterwards and she 
died. A girl, Lucy, an unfortunate inmate of the Home, mar- 
ried after two and one-half years and left her child at the Home, 
which afterwards was adopted by a splendid family. Lucy 
came on a visit to the Home and testified beautifully. She 
afterward contracted the flu and died. She served and trusted 
her Lord. He was the only one she depended on and she lived 
for Him. She was converted and held out unto death, though, 
as she wrote, she had a hard road. When married she stuck to 
Christ and He took her to Himself, praise God, to meet and 
part no more. 



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MATRON FOCHT, 1908 

"Jesus is all the world to us" 

The Matrons 

Mr. Hiram Focht assisted his wife, who served as Matron 
a period. They had to resign on account of ill health. He was 
blind. They did noble work — opened the markets to solicita- 
tion for help, and also good rescue work. I was so sorry they 
had to quit. God reward them for what they have done. 

Mr. Focht is an intelligent, progressive speaker. He stood 
faithfully by his wife, while the matron was nice and clean and 
taught the girls to be tidy and have a place for everything. 
They loved the work. Mr. Focht is a veteran — still carries a 
bullet in his head. He lost his eyesight. His heart is still in this 
kind of work. He claims it is only for the poor and way- 
ward and unfortunates in this city. We stood together nicely 
until they had to resign. 



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MATRON HILDEBRAND, 1909 



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MATRON HILDEBRAND, 1909 

Mr. Hildebrand and his wife served a period and rendered 
noble services for the Home. He was also good in soliciting. 
Mrs. Hildebrand was naturally good as a matron, housekeeping 
and order. We stood together nicely until they had to resign 
on account of illness, and the Lord will reward every one that 
stood by the Home to help when in need. God always did 
send some one to stand by until we got steady help. I am sure 
1 am thankful for all help and assistance in the past eleven 
years. 



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MRS. E. A. STEINMETZ, Matron, 1910-1914 

For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand saying unto thee: Fear 
not; I will help thee. Isa 41:13 



THE MATRON STEINMETZ 51 

The Matron Steinmetz 

Mrs. E. A. Steinmetz, who was Matron for five and one- 
half years, got a nervous breakdown. She was very successful 
and stood faithfully by the Home and Founder and Board until 
a severe sickness broke out. 

Matron Steinmetz had given a lawful written statement to 
the Beulah Anchorage Rescue Home ^ a memorial, $2,500, 
after her death, but the Founder planned it for an endowment 
and began to work hard to get the first annex paid as soon as 
possible. She got it paid in a few years from building funds that 
came in by contributions, when the Matron became sick and was 
eight weeks in the hospital. After that she could not stand the 
work, but had to resign and get more quiet work. She had a 
good offer in the Alliance work in California, and her brother 
then requested to have her memorial changed, and, by the con- 
sent of the Board of Ladies, it was decided to return the lawful 
statement of the $2,500 memorial, as she had served faithfully 
and stood by rescue work fine for five and one-half years as 
Matron. She also had contributed $350 cash for the chart in the 
vestibule and her service as Matron and always donated part 
of her wages. 

Therefore it was proposed by the Founder and President, 
Mrs. Landis, to return it for her faithful contributions and her 
service be counted for the memorial. The Board was united 
that the contributions and donations shall be in the place called 
memorial and to return the $2,500 memorial paper for her 
faithfulness, as per her brother's request. 

A vote of thanks was given for her services while Matron. 
May God reward her and bless her in all her need and undertak- 
ing in life is my earnest prayer, till we meet again to part no 
more. Praise God for salvation. 



MY NEW YORK FRIENDS 53 

My New York Friends 

Mrs. M. Dobbin and her two fine daughters came to help 
out, Miss Jennie Dobbin as Superintendent and Miss Alice 
Dobbin, her standby. A blessed, dear people. But this work was 
too hard for them, as the Home was not yet advanced in 
finances as it should be to get the proper help and see that the 
work got easier. They were talented, dear people. God bless 
them. They were a blessing to the Home those seven months 
with me. Though they did not understand the slum work, the 
Superintendent said: *'No one can come in and do the work you 
have done and are doing until after a year by your side." But 
in seven months they found the same work was too hard. They 
were well adapted for Y. W. C. A. work, and the Superintendent 
said before she left she could write more than a volume of ex- 
perience in such work. 

•'Rejoice in the Lord. Rejoice in His redemptive attrib- 
utes. Rejoice in the grace that abounds today and in the glory 
that sometime becomes an eternal reality. Praise God." 



54 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

The Prodigal Girl 

We all have a heart for the prodigal boy, 

Who was caught in sin's mad whirl 
And we welcome him back with songs of joy; 

But what of the prodigal girl ? 

For the prodigal boy there's an open door 

And a father's bounteous fare, 
And, though he is wretched, sick and poor, 

He is sure of welcome there. 

But what of the girl who has gone astray, 

Who has lost in the battle with sin? 
Say, do we forgive in the same sweet way 

We've always forgiven him? 

Does the door stand ajar as if to say. 

Come, enter, you need not fear; 
I've been open thus since you went away, | 

Now close to the second year? " I 

Or do we with hand of hellish pride 

Close and bolt the door 
And swear "while heaven and earth abide, 

She will enter here no more? " I 

Oh, Christ, it seems we have never learned > 

The lesson taught in the sand, j 

For even yet the woman is spurned * 
And stoned in a Christian land. 

Down in the slough we hurl her bark. 

Then turn around with a smile 
And welcome the boy from the sinful track, 

Though he may have been more vile. ^ 

We all have a heart for the prodigal boy I 

Who was caught in sin's mad whirl, I 

And we welcome him back with songs of joy; ' 
But what of the prodigal girl ? 

(Selected) By Mrs. Dr. H. B. Miller. 



A MESSAGE— HOW THE SPIRIT DIRECTS 55 

Work Done for Beulah Anchorage 

We can say we had some of the worst kind of people 
here, those who were outcasts, and then we also had nice girls — 
unfortunate and shattered ones, who became interested at once 
in the Home. Some would remain a few days only and get 
converted and reach out a helping hand willingly and say, "I 
just love this mission work." All became interested when told 
the tidings of great joy is for everybody to have. Whosoever 
will, may come and receive the living water freely. As a rule, 
they took Christ in their heart and life at once. As Christ said 
to the thief and robber on the cross beside Him when he asked 
for mercy, Christ answered and said, 'Today thou shalt be 
with me in paradise." 

Most every week some came in as others were ready to 
leave. Such that had forsaken their own when they went 
astray. When we reported and told them their daughter came 
to Beulah Anchorage, they became very anxious to have them 
come home as a prodigal girl, and the parents anxiously came 
for their lost girl. And they told them the news that they got 
converted to make heaven. We never turned any away who 
were willing to come under the rules of the institution, and my 
very life and heart was taken up in this kind of rescue work, 
until I had to give in through physical ailments. 

'TOUNDER" 



A Message — How the Spirit Directs 

'The spiritual power divinely directs, gives us absolute 
dominion over all flesh and every possible form of evil." 
Rev. 12:10. 

"As he thinketh in his heart, so he is." Prov. 23:17. 

And Jeremiah 6:9 says: "Behold, I will bring evil upon 
this people, even the fruits of their thoughts." 



56 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

The happiness of our life depends upon the quality of our 
thoughts and have backbone to stand for the right, which power 
is in the Blood of Christ. 

Jerry McAuley fell six times before he could stand for the 
right, as he had no good forms to build on. But the last time 
he referred to: 

Take my life and let it be, 
Consecrated, Lord, to Thee; 
Take my will and make it Thine, 
It shall be no longer mine. 
Take myself and 1 will be 
Ever always all for Thee. 

He was a great user of the weed. Some faithful Christian 
went to him and said: "Jerry, give up your tobacco for Jesus* 
sake." He gave it up and never fell afterwards. 



Control Over Human Being and Soul 

When converted they received forgiveness of their sins 
and received also a prayer book. In their hearts they were 
anxious for their privilege to thank God for all the blessings 
they received and for the throne of grace. As Jesus said to 
Paul while suffering from his persecution, "Paul, be of good 
cheer; My grace is sufficient for thee." So they thank their 
beloved Christ for His blood shed for the remission of their 
sins, of the world, and to know through the Holy Spirit, which 
witnesses to their spirit, that they are one of His children. Born 
of the Holy Spirit, which has a promise of being made an heir 
with the Blessed Son of God, the King of Glory, and I, as 
Founder and rescue worker, had for eleven years the privilege 
of enjoying the glory of their faces when they passed from, 
"death unto life." 



THE INSTITUTION SYSTEM 57 

The Institution System 

In those eleven years there was practical service that will 
only be known in eternity, as the work was too great to have 
things itemized without notes and I did not have time to note 
down as they occurred. This came to pass by experimental ex- 
perience. But God credited all. 

Blessings, goodness and mercy were given all the time, and 
we had order and control of inmates, young and old, who com- 
plied with the rules, and got the work done mostly by the in- 
mates. As my inmates were nearly all fallen and unfortunate 
and not ready to go to work, they first had to learn house- 
keeping, clean, wash, learn to sew and search the word of 
God. My, how I loved to see and superintend them at work, as 
they went about like children six years of age. Some seemed 
so weak from not being accustomed to anything but decorate 
themselves — paint, powder and perfume and being giddy — no 
mind for heaven or destruction — unconcerned. But, oh, how 
soon they felt the need of a Saviour and some one to teach them 
to work in this mission — converts for the next dear girl which 
is in need of recruiting in body and soul and give their life to 
Christ. Oh, how Christ gave them light to walk therein, as He 
teaches them to depart from the worldly pleasures and be- 
come spiritual, walk uprightly, take up the cross and obey 
Christ. Gal. 5:24. 

They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the 
affections and lusts. The word crucified, it is not pardon; the 
divine method is crucify, means death — die to worldly pleasure, 
like the drunkards — stop evil. Most people today are going 
on the repression theory. You must repress it, or depress it, or 
compress it, or oppress it — somehow press it. I would use the 
language of Dr. Corrodine: 'Tou had better express it by the 
second Adams Express Company." 



58 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

Psalms 5l :5 : ''Behold, I was shapen in iniquity and in sin 
did my mother conceive me." That is how you came about 
it. You see it in a babe three months old. It will stiffen its little 
back and squall and make its papa join the knights of labor, 
and its mamma, too, for that matter, and undertake to rule the 
house. And it comes mighty near to it, too. Now keep sweet, 
sister, we don't mean your baby. We all know that your baby 
is a perfect little angel. We are just talking about your neigh- 
bor's children, and everybody knows that they are the worst 
in the town. I met a few who say that babies are pure, babies 
are innocent. But they are not pure. If so, they need no atone- 
ment. In the next world there is no sin, so the babe simply has 
the unconstitutional benefit of the atonement at the moment of 
its death. No work of death, no saving power. 

No matter how degraded one may have felt, or how hope- 
less life may have seemed, there was a welcome for all in those 
eleven years at Beulah Anchorage, and there was some one 
there to accept you day and night, that we might sing songs of 
praise together, which opened to the dear ones a new life 
through repentance, and to seek the Lord until He answered and 
manifested His joy in them. The call of the Lord is to all 
Come trustingly without price, because you feel the need of a 
helping hand until soul and body are restored to advancement, 
to get along, enjoy salvation and comfort. There was no com- 
pulsion, only a privilege. But, as a rule, after we have rendered 
her such assistance as we can, she will be free to go. Subject 
only to restraining influence of her conscience, when we fondly 
trust to lead her to forsake all evil and consecrate her heart to 
God, who is able to keep and protect, until called up higher to 
the Home of Eternal Rest — to meet, to part no more. 




EMMA 

On Entering Beulah A former prominent After being an inmate 
Anchorage figure in Police Court, for 4^/^ months 

Reading, Pa. 



THE WORK OF GRACE UPON A HUMAN FACE 



A FORMER PROMINENT FIGURE IN POLICE COURT 59 

Emma, a Former Prominent Figure in Police Court, 
Reading, Pa. 

Twenty Long Years Under the Influence of Drink 

During nine years of my prison work, before I founded 
the Beulah Anchorage Home, I met Emma in prison occasion- 
ally, and I labored with her there. I told her: "Jesus loves you 
as no one else will, and He died for you, as no one will. Re- 
member, He cleansed Mary Magdalene, and so He will you. 
My dear, your mother worries her life away." As I had cottage 
prayer meetings amongst the poor while I did prison work and 
had prayer meeting at the mother's and brother's home, Emma 
became convicted of her sins. We knelt down to pray. I 
prayed with her — short prayers. Then I asked her to pray. 
'*Oh," she says, "I can't." ''Emma, dear, you can talk and it is 
only a talk with God. My dear, please say, 'Lord, have mercy 
on me a poor sinner.' " And she did. Soon she could pray — 
until I came again. When I founded the Home I got her a few 
times and she was helped each time. I had her five times, and 
she got down every time and repented. But the fifth time she 
got an extra experience. She prayed through to God and was 
touched by the Holy Spirit with real salvation, borne of the 
Spirit. 

She was a High School scholar, and soon she asked me to 
let her give her experience to the public. I secured the Audi- 
torium for a service for her, to deliver the message of part of 
her life and conversion. The Lord helped her, but some mission 
people asked her to speak and made her feel as if she didn't 
need the Home. But Emma went as usual with some of the 
inmates to the mission and the assistant in care of them. Emma 
had a date with some singers to meet them. She left the as- 
sistant without the permission of the Matron. She met a demon 
and listened to temptation. The Assistant Matron was so sorry 
that she left her to herself to meet the singers without per- 



60 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

mission. Emma was gone from Saturday evening until Sunday 
morning at eleven o'clock, and an officer brought her to the 
Anchorage again. When she looked at me she said: "Mrs. 
Landis, I am going to kill myself, as people have no faith in me 
any more." I answered: ''Emma, dear, then the demon is sure 
to get you." It was soon time for service, and she asked me 
"not to ask her for service." "Well, you go quietly to your 
room, dear, and your mind will soon be relieved." In two hours 
I went for her, as the service began, and asked her kindly to 
come down, and at last she came along and was soon willing 
to repent. It was the fifth time she started out. 

The Lord reclaimed her. As Jerry McAuley fell six times 
and got up to stay at last and became a great soul winner, so 
she was reclaimed after being born again. So no one could say 
who heard her pray "Nothing in it," and each one had to 
know it was the Holy Spirit that rang out. She left the Anchor- 
age to make her own way, was married and settled in life. Such 
that say the Gospel is "played out," should listen to her and 
look at her face, which expresses a spiritual glow. Only the 
love of God in Jesus Christ could win such a triumph. 

May this book have a wide circulation and lead many to 
go and do likewise — let Jesus guide. If I only could get down 
to the great meetings, with its spirit-filled people, the place of 
the Anchorage in those eleven years. Of all the preaching and 
ringing testimony and powerful singing from different churches 
on a Sunday afternoon. God came down to greet Beulah 
Anchorage and lit up the place gloriously. No one could wish 
anything better for themselves than to have a chance of winning 
a little of that blessing. And, my, when we had from three to 
-four and eight at the altar — built from chairs — and knelt down 
and wept that the tears stood like water on the chairs and asked 
God to forgive their waywardness and sins. And little Beulah 



THE TWO CLASSES 61 

came and helped me to pray, and patted my shoulders, and so 
did little Arthur, with a fist, and patted on the seekers' shoulders, 
and said ''amen." Oh, the glorious times in Christ we had in 
that Home is unspeakable. We had tears and joy mingled. Oh, 
what a blessing. With tears of joy the evil one cannot rob us 
of. He is helpless and him and I can't agree. We never were 
friends, as I always condemned him since I was born of God, 
and then he tormented me all he could. 

You find the good book says: ''Rejoice and be exceedingly 
glad, for great is your reward in heaven; for so persecuted they 
the prophets which were before me." 

But I have made no statement which cannot be verified. It 
is all about hideous, ravaging, soul-destroying sin. Some may 
say: "How is it that such monstrous cases came to the institu- 
tion as fallen and unfortunates, and the needy of rescue work 
of the Beulah Anchorage, and after being redeemed made such 
firm Christians, to work day and night for the Home? " Well, 
sin is the only thing which separates mankind from God. She 
explained good homeless girls and women come in ruined and 
filthy. They seemed to take heart and interest in the work and 
helped all they could, until they had a way to get along and 
make their way and were converted just the same. All have 
to come down at Jesus' feet to get right with God. Moral and 
good works don't count before conversion. 



"The Two Classes" Luke 17:10 

Christ teaches us to avoid occasions of defence, one to for- 
give another. The power of faith to God and the coming of the 
Son of Man. I now want to speak of two classes: First — those 
who do not feel the need of a Saviour; second — those who are 
convinced of sin and cry, "What must I do to be saved? " 



62 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

All inquiries can be arranged under two heads: they have 
either the spirit of the Pharisee or the spirit of the publican. If 
a man having the spirit of the Pharisee comes into a meeting 
and he meets the portion of Scripture to meet his case in Rom. 
3:10 as it is written: 'There is none righteous; no, not one; 
there is none that understandeth; there is none that seeketh 
after God." Paul is here speaking of a natural man. They are 
all gone out of the way. They are together become unprofit- 
able; there is none that doeth good; *'no, not one." And in 
the 17th verse: "And the way of peace have they not known. 
There is no fear of God before their eyes." Now, we know 
\vhat things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under 
the law ''that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world 
may become guilty before God." Then observe the last clause 
of verse 23: "For there is no difference, for all have sinned 
and come short of the glory of God." Another verse which I 
used very much to convince mankind of their sin is I John 1 :8 : 
"If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth 
is not in us." I John 1 :9: "If we confess our sins. He is faith- 
ful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all 
unrighteousness." 

Continue the two classes: There was a lady who came to 
a series of meetings in a city and asked prayer for her husband, 
whom she purposed to bring into the meeting, and the preacher 
told the lady, "I have labored with many Pharisees, but this 
man is clad in self-rightousness" to the extent that one could 
not get the point of the needle of conviction in anywhere. He 
said to his wife, "I am glad to see your faith, but we cannot get 
near him; he is the most self-righteous man I ever saw." She 
said, "You must; my heart will break if these meetings end with- 
out his conversion." She persisted in bringing him and I got 
almost tired of the sight of him. But towards the close of our 
meetings he came to me and put his trembling hand on my 



THE TWO CLASSES 63 

shoulder. The place in which the meetings were held was 
rather cold, and he asked to go into the adjoining room, which 
had been lighted a few minutes. I did not think he was ready, 
but he said, "I am the worst man in the State of Vermont. I 
want you to pray for me." I thought he had committed murder, 
or some awful crime, and I asked: ''Is there any one sin that 
particularly troubles you?" And he said: ''My whole life has 
been a sin. I have been a conceited, self-righteous Pharisee. I 
want you to pray for me." He was under deep conviction. No 
doubt the wife's faith with God produced this result, as the 
leader was too weak in faith, but the Spirit answered her 
prayers. About 2 o'clock in the morning light broke in upon 
his soul and he went out to the business people of the city and 
told what God had done for him, and has been a most active 
Christian ever since. 

God help us never to give up a soul. 



64 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

What Beulah Anchorage Means to Me — Edna 

In the year 1902 I was looking around for a place to 
work. In my arms I carried a two-months-old baby girl. I 
found a place and worked there for one week, but the people 
did not like to have a small child in the house, so I was told to 
go and look for another place. This was in the dead of winter, 
and I did not have a home or friend in the world, as my first 
husband deserted me before my baby was born. I did not know 
where to go. Then some one told me of the Beulah Anchorage. 
I had heard of the Home for women, but everybody told me 
that I would have to give up my little child. This I did not 
want to do, as it was the only friend I had and I loved it dearly. 
At first I was afraid to go and ask these people to take me in, 
but at last I was driven to it, for I did not know where to go. I 
went to the Home, and to my delight they received me. The 
welcome I got soon set aside all my fears, for my first question 
was about my child. They told me I could keep it with me. I 
was overjoyed. I was given a nice room with plenty of fresh 
air. They even gave me a crib for my baby and looked after 
me so I would be warm and comfortable. We had family wor- 
ship mornings and evenings, which I loved, for I was taught to 
live a Christian life. After family worship the girls were all 
given their work for the morning. When dinner came we 
would all go to the table at once — Matron and Mrs. Landis and 
all — then we would give thanks for the food provided for us. 
In the afternoon we would sew and do such work that was to 
be done. When evening came all the girls would gather in the 
lecture room and we would sing good Christian hymns taught 
us by Mrs. Landis, or the Matron would join us and would read 
to us from the Bible and teach us the word of God. It did me 
good when I would sit with my little child on my lap and listen 
to them. Although I was a Christian girl, I came to the Beulah 
Anchorage for a home. I was no fallen girl. We would have 



WHAT BEULAH ANCHORAGE MEANS TO ME 65 

prayer meetings and many a fallen girl was lifted from her low 
life to seek the dear Saviour. When a fallen girl would be 
brought to the Home, Mrs. Landis would show her the way to 
truth and happiness. She would pray with her and ask the dear 
Lord to save her, and after her prayers were answered we had 
many rejoicings as those girls who were way down in sin gave 
their hearts to God. I can recall more than once that the girls 
were so happy that they would love and kiss Mrs. Landis. They 
were so glad that she had showed them the right way. Many 
of these girls are married and have fine families, and they never 
forget the Home. I will tell you what all the girls thought of 
Mrs. Landis — she was a dear mother to them all. How their 
faces would brighten up when she would come to the Home, 
and how we would hate to see her go home again. The Matron 
was good to us girls also, but Mrs. Landis could reach the heart. 
It didn't matter how ill or what trouble she had, there was 
always a smile for us girls, and when we had a little trouble 
she could always make it right. We would go to market and 
the people were kind to us. We always had plenty to eat and 
we always had good clothing to wear. The girls were taught 
to mend their own clothing; also keep their rooms clean and 
make their beds. The Home was always kept nice and clean 
and was open any time to strangers. Mrs. Landis never sent 
any one away from the door. She was always willing to take 
any one that did not have a home. Many a family she reunited 
by talking to the husband. She would bring them down on their 
knees and make them promise to do what was right and then 
tell the wife to live with him and try again. To me Beulah 
Anchorage was a home and Mrs. Landis a dear mother. After 
I was in the Home about two months Mrs. Landis made me 
Assistant Matron. She paid me small wages; also seen that 
myself and child had plenty to wear. She taught me many 
things, told me how to raise my baby, to keep it nice and clean. 



66 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

I was very sick when I came to the Home. Mrs. Landis herself 
attended to me and looked after my child. She did not only do 
this for me, but for all the rest of the girls. I was in poor health; 
when better, I left the Home and hired out in the country, 
but I could never forget the Home. I would go to see them 
every few weeks, as I could not long stay away from the girls 
and Mrs. Landis. At last I married a second time. We were 
married at Reading and came to the Home after the wedding 
for Mrs. Landis' blessing, which we received at once, giving her 
the wedding bouquet. I was happy again, but it did not last 
long, as there was soon a little trouble, and I came back to the 
Home. Mrs. Landis took me in again. I told her all my trouble 
and she was so good to me. When my husband came for me 
she talked to him and he has been a good man ever since, and 
he also thinks there is no other woman like Mrs. Landis. I am 
now a happy woman with a nice family. Mrs. Landis is the 
same to us today as she always was; comes to visit us, and we 
cannot wait until she comes, we love her so. I shall never for- 
get what she has done for me and my little girl, always loving. 
I have never heard her give a cross word to anybody, always 
giving orders in a cheery way, and by the life she lives leading 
others to the dear Saviour. 

On Sundays we would go to Sunday School and have 
meetings in the Home and would have testimony meetings. I 
enjoyed them, because all the girls would have a word for the 
Lord. We would sing and read the Bible and every girl was 
taught to pray — not a prayer written, but from the heart; even 
the little children would help. We were taught to do all kinds 
of sewing and crocheting. We made quilts and covers for the 
beds, mattresses for cots and clothing for the inmates. Mrs. 
Landis taught us how to save in all things, how to manage a 
home and how to live a clean, spotless life. I have been at the 
Home since Mrs. Landis has given it into other hands. I was 



WHAT BEULAH ANCHORAGE MEANS TO ME 67 

treated with kindness, but it was not home to me any more. 

All the girls are gone — sent out into the world. They do 
not want girls that cannot pay their board. They have turned 
it into a boarding house for girls. They are forgetting the 
rescue work. Some of the girls have gone back to their lives 
of sin just because they were sent from the Home. Some of 
the women that were there for about ten years have been sent 
into the world without a home or any friends, Mrs. Landis not 
knowing where they are. What we need is a home for fallen 
women, not a boarding place for girls, for girls that live right 
can get a home anywhere; but the fallen girls are turned out 
and sent lower instead of being brought to the Saviour. 

What I have written is all true, and I trust and pray that 
the Beulah Anchorage will again be opened to receive the poor 
and fallen. For unfortunate girls and women it was a door of 
mercy. Where will the poor people go now? Will they ever 
hear the Saviour's name again? It is only the girls who were 
rescued that can tell what a Home it was and what it meant to 
them. I am broken-hearted to think that the dear Home where 
all us girls used to gather will be home no more, since they will 
not receive the fallen; but still I rejoice that Mrs. Landis is the 
same dear, sweet mother to me as in other days, when she 
would gather us all together and tell us of the dear Saviour. 
Such lessons go deep into the heart, and may the dear Saviour 
reward her for the good work she has done. 

In closing I would say I have asked Mrs. Landis to let me 
write this letter, for it is all I can ever do to return her many 
favors. I would never be able to reward her for her kindness 
to me and the words will not sing her praises enough. I will 
leave her in the hands of my dear, loving Saviour. May He 
give her strength to go through to the end, and when our work 
is done on this earth, may we meet over on that heavenly 
shore, where we shall meet to part no more. 



6S THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

What a meeting that will be when we see Jesus and our 
loved ones gone before. I have had visions of this meeting, but 
oh, the joy to be there. It must be grand to walk the streets 
of gold and sing the songs of the Lamb. I am sure Mrs. Landis 
will hear those sweet words: *'Well done, thou good and faith- 
ful servant. Enter thou into the glories of the word." And 
may her crown be full of stars for the souls she has saved for 
Jesus. Dear Lord, stand by her till the end, is my earnest 
prayer. 

Lovingly, 

EDNA. 



A Gifted, Faithful Soul 

Mabel came to the Beulah Anchorage homeless and wished 
we would give her a home. She was of a good family. Her 
father was a doctor of Washington, D. C, and she was his 
assistant in medicine and surgery. She buried both and done 
domestic work in a nice family for six years. She fell from a 
step-ladder and injured her spine, hands and limbs. She was 
an invalid, yet she was able soon to do enough work to earn 
her home of charity. She was very useful in many ways. She 
was reclaimed and stood faithfully by the work. She helped to 
take care of the last wing which was built. The sewing rooms 
were planned for recreation as well, as you find in the statement 
of building. Mabel was good at training children and helped to 
care for them when mothers worked out. Our report shows 
the charity persentage 98, as recorded in this book in the last 
annual report. Mabel was deserving of a home somewhere, 
and she always declared Washington, D. C, had no home like 
this, where the poor and unfortunate were so kindly cared for 
work return only. If one needed a home, all that was re- 
quired was for them to help do the charity work. 



A GIFTED, FAITHFUL SOUL 69 

Some were glad to take hold for others that are unfortunate 
and stand by the Home to get it improved from time to time 
until it was well established. The Home had a capacity of 60 
and mostly furnished for the poor and needy. To accommodate 
City Hall was a great work. Many a poor soul with children, 
abused and battered and scared out of their home through 
scrapping or rum, and often kept until man and wife were res- 
cued and united, made a new convert, and many found Christ 
there. As the lecture room was the sacred room to read and 
practice new hymns and sacred services, no work was done 
there, which was supposed to teach them to keep the House 
of God in reverence when they leave — anxious to go to 
church, as there is' so much spirit of heathenism and will take 
advantage in the last days. All churches that advocate revivals 
and turned out many, many converts, such were added to the 
church, and their teachings was Paul's teaching, Rom. 6:12: 
"What shall we say, then; shall we continue in sin? that grace 
may abound? God forbid." Rom. 10:10: "For with the 
heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth 
confession is made unto salvation. Abstain from all appear- 
ances of evil" II Cor. 6:17-18: "Wherefore come out from 
among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not 
the unclean thing, and I will receive you, and be a father unto 
you, and ye shall be my sons and my daughters, saith the Lord 
Almighty." James says whosoever will be a friend of the 
world is the enemy of God. Romans 12 :2 : "And be not con- 
formed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing 
of your mind, that ye may prove what is good and acceptable 
and perfect will of God. Commit thy way unto the Lord." 

God bless Mabel, as her testimony as a rule was. Wait on 
the Lord and He shall renew your strength, and I say to Mabel, 
wherever she is now, at this hour, be true to thy God and in due 
time we shall meet to part no more, as Jesus is the way, the 



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truth and the life. Praise God, He loves us with an everlasting 
love and a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Thank 
God. We cannot understand the passerby, but we will un- 
derstand when we get to our heavenly home by and by. Many 
are the afflictions of the righteous. The day is drawing nigh 
that we shall reap an eternal joy in return, a joy unspeakable 
and full of glory. Thank God. Let us take courage — look up, 
not down; look forward, not backward. 



A Miracle Wrought by God 

An unfortunate girl was brought in by her father and she 
claimed the father to be the one who deceived her. He came 
before the girl and made a plea before me and the Matron, with 
his hands towards the heavens, and said: "Oh, God, thou art my 
witness that I am innocent. I am not the one who deceived 
the poor girl." And the Matron and myself believed he was 
innocent, and we both explained how wrong to blame an inno- 
cent person, especially the father. You shall honor your father 
and mother. If not true, see the sin you do. And advised her 
to stop and think and be willing to confess if she was wrong. 
But oh, she seemed to keep it up and was firm; but we let her 
go, only reminded her and prayed for her earnestly, and one day 
she got sick and she sent one of the girls for us to come to her 
room — that she had something to tell us, and said: ''Mrs. 
Landis and Matron, now I am ready to tell the truth — the one I 
blamed is innocent. It was one who done repair work when 
father was away to work. He warned me to say nothing." I 
prayed the Lord should convict the dear girl of her sins in her 
condition and bring the truth to the front. The doctor of the 
Board of Health and Associated Charities had them both exam- 
ined. There was a private hearing and I knew only God could 
intervene in this case, as the father fell on his knees and prayed 



A WILLING GIRL TO RETURN HOME 71 

God to help her to tell the truth. In about four weeks the girl 
got under conviction and she commenced to weep and asked 
us to forgive her and asked us to pray for her and asked to send 
for her father and go for the doctor. She declared, '*I told him 
wrong; also the lady of the Associated Charities." And she told 
each one the wrong she done to blame the wrong party and 
asked each one to forgive her. It was very sad indeed, yet it 
was a blessing for the innocent one. But oh, I kept on praying 
to God for that girl, not strong mentally, to get where she was 
willing to tell the truth, and God forgave her and He made her 
willing. We could never have done it. All that knew about it 
were more than astonished at how she became willing to tell 
the truth. Our confession service brought great honor to God. 
Through having it done in the name of Jesus, I had, by the 
help of God, control over the whole. Most every other day 
matrons called by phone for me to come and get them in a 
pacification atmosphere. In those little ups and downs I never 
ask what is the trouble — I only ask them to forgive each other, 
and when that was done ask the Matron to forgive them, as 
discord is a worry to the matrons — all in peace and joy. Jesus 
was pleased and gave us a blessed service. Thank God. 



A Willing Girl to Return Home 

The prodigal girl Maud came to the Home unfortunate, 
eight years ago, and God gave her, after four months, a fine 
baby girl. Beulah became the sunshine of the Anchorage 
Home and Maud reconsecrated her life to God and to Christ 
for life and became our Assistant Matron. She was liked. She 
wanted to do the work to God's honor and glory. In four years 
she left the Home, after she gave her child to a good Christian 
family, and done domestic work until she married and got set- 
tled in life and lived happily. In a few years God gave them a 



72 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

fine little girl. Bless God, she enjoyed the Home while there 
and enjoyed the confession. She would say: ''Dear Mrs. Landis, 
you always do straighten troubles and confessions out nice, and 
do not give up until all is harmony and peace. Then you cheer 
us all with a Bible message, singing and praying." All received 
great help from the Lord and courage to go on with the rescue 
work. 

If any unsaved, after the message inspired from the Lord, 
were willing to take Christ in their hearts and life, they came 
willingly and penitently forward, weeping, and the tears fell on 
the chair like Mary Magdalene's fell on Christ's feet to wash 
them and dried them with her hair. They prayed through to 
Christ on Calvary Cross, received the answer sins forgiven, 
burden rolled away and the heart filled with the joy of peace 
and love. 

What about the prodigal girls and women ? 

''Does the door stand ajar as if to say. 

Come, enter, you need not fear? 
I've been open thus since I went away. 

Now where — the second year? 
Or do we, with hand of hellish pride. 

Close and bolt the door for the unfortunate? 
And swear 'While heaven and earth abide 

She will enter here no more? ' 
God melt some hearts, of one shut. 

Another open, for a soul saving station, 
Until the day breaks o'er the hills." 



A Girl's Experience 

Dear Mary — she thanks the Founder and Matron that we 
took her in homeless and cared for her as an unfortunate. She 



GOD'S PROMISE 73 

had a mis-birth and in a few months was converted, and we 
cared for her gratis for eighteen months, as her sickness was 
incurable. She was healed and she was faithful to the Matron. 
She loved to stay, poor soul. She wrote, off and on, and said 
she was so thankful for what we done for her. 

Eighty-nine per cent was charity while the Founder was 
in charge of the Home. Annexes and additions were built, re- 
pairs and fire escapes and cementing was done besides rescue 
and charity work. The little money I got from the State and 
otherwise, which we received with grateful hearts, were the 
crumbs with which we did a great work. God will see to each 
reward for the work of slums, poor unfortunates and waywards, 
and eternity will show the work that counts as good Samaritans 
and Mary Magdalenes. 

God's Promise Is 

All you may need He will provide; 

God will take care of you. 

No matter what may be the test, 

We will take care of you. 

Till He calls, come up higher 

To join the blood-washed throng 

With the redeemed in glory. 

Oh, if thou knewest the gifts of God, wretched sinner, and 
who it is that saith unto thee, ''If any man thirst, let him come 
unto me and drink," thou wouldst have asked of Him and He 
will give him living water. I, even I, am He that blotteth out 
thy transgressions for our own sake and will not remember thy 
sins no more. Praise God. 



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Many a girl comes from a good family, but is persuaded 
by the demon tempter to go downward and soon becomes care- 
less and a slave to circumstances, while some girls were pro- 
cured by men in a house of ill fame for slaves upon the 
promise to marry them and supply their needs. They urged these 
women to get all the money possible and turn it over to the 
one she loved, but he deceived her. There were several hun- 
dred inmates during the past period, January 1, 1910, to 1914, 
a term of four years, which includes the mothers, babies, white, 
colored and foreigners. The girls and women were admitted 
during the years by the district attorney, the mayor, court, de- 
tectives, prison officials. Humane Society, Associated Charities 
and friends of the rescue work. Some came on their own ac- 
count for shelter and to be cared for. There is no red tape 
connected with this Home. You can call at the door, ask for 
the Matron, E. A. Steinmetz, who will inform the President, 
Mrs. M. L. Landis, who makes arrangements and investigates. 
We had several white slave girls in the Home — Flora, Laura, 
Bessie and others. 

One of them slaved in sixteen different states, and during 
this time, a period of two years, was never sober an hour. She 
was led astray when but fifteen years of age, slaved eighteen 
years and was twice in Beulah Anchorage, and got converted. 
The last letter I had from her she said she was going to go 
through for God and repent until she can stand. They, as a 
rule, leave when the way opens and believe they are strong 
enough. We had from three to seven mothers with babies at 
a time. Many are so wrecked and sickly when we get them 
that it takes time to mend them, as they need help for both 
soul and body, and all such that are glad for the open door of 
blessing were put on a footing so as to be able to make their 
own way. The Home turned out good and substantial work dur- 
ing the last eleven years, and, as the good people should under- 



THE SIMPLE, ARTLESS WAY 75 

stand, we made the very best use of all the money entrusted 
to us. There is no more crying need anywhere than for a home 
of this character for unfortunate, homeless and fallen girls and 
women and such discharged from the hospitals for twelve days, 
still too weak to work or have a little one to care for and no 
friends and without money to pay a night's lodging. It was our 
work to help the poor. May the Holy Spirit follow all such 
that did not keep true to God. 



The Simple, Artless Way 

Many times in this work a girl all done out — way down 
where all hope is gone — ^forsaken and shattered by sin to a 
mere skeleton, a hopeless case, came and I prepared a service, 
got the help of the Lord and the Holy Spirit touched the souls. 
After all little troubles were pacified we would open the meet- 
ing and Jesus was right there. Everyone had to realize it was 
the Lord touched her and each one, and I had given the word 
and gave the invitation that Jesus loves her as no one can 
with an everlasting love, and she dropped in my arms and 
dropped down and stepped out and repented, asked the Lord to 
have mercy, and she was so broken up and prayed right out. 
How God manifested Himself, rolled the burden away, forgave 
her and cast all her sins in the sea of forgetfulness. Praise His 
Holy Name. Jesus is the rock in the weary land, a shelter in 
the time of storm. While the building was going on I always 
found time to help souls, and the Lord sent the money for the 
building in due time. There was always opposition by the 
evil one, as it made him very mad to lose souls. He tried to 
lead them to ruin and destruction, but it always done the Home 
good. Christ not only reformed, but transformed, so they 
were not interested in Jim or old maid cards and rag-time 
songs to amuse them. Christ did not lead me, nor did the Holy 



76 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

Spirit teach me, that worldly amusements would help them to 
be cheerful. 

They confessed again and again to me that the picture 
shows, theatres, dances, Jim and this playing cards for pastime 
dragged them down to sin. Why, bless your soul, we had no 
time to spare. We had worship morning, evening and after- 
noon. Sometimes a band of workers came in and gave service 
and all got help like a shower bath from God. The converts 
were interested in becoming more spiritual to understand the 
word and find out what God wanted them to' do. They were 
taught to search the blessed Holy Book, the Bible, psalms and 
beatitudes and ten commandments, the love chapter and the 
obedient chapter, get the law of God planted in their dear 
hearts, which had been full of pleasure of the world, desires 
which opened their lives to channels for the demon to work on 
to deceive their souls and drown their conscience in the 
pleasure of nonsense. Suppose it to be no harm, where has the 
Holy Spirit a chance to dwell and make His abode? No room! 
So God gets the honor and glory. We don't want it, as Bishop 
Seybert said to a soul when he was asked if she got converted, 
would it be right to dance. He answered: 'Tou take Christ in 
your heart and life and then you can dance all you want." And 
after she had given her heart to God, through Christ His blessed 
Son, she reported that to the Bishop who told her she could 
dance all she wanted. *Tes, do you want to? " "No." ''Why 
not? " ''Why, I can't understand that I dare to do the things I 
done when I was no Christian. Now I belong to God. Now I 
love what I used to hate and hate what I used to love." The 
Bishop said: "Remember, I said dance all you want to." So 
the "want to" is taken out of you, and that shows it belongs to 
the world, not to a devoted Christian that is born of the Spirit. 

Mr. Snyder, a class leader in the First United Evangelical 
Church, had cottage prayer meeting once a week somewhere, 



A DEAR GIRL CAME 17 

and I asked him to connect with the Beulah Anchorage and 
come whenever the time was, and he came to the institution 
frequently with his group and gave us a delightful service. He 
was pleased with the spirit of the institution and that he found 
girls and women saved and free to testify to the experience they 
received while at the Home. He said: *'I must say, I believe it 
is carried on through the leading to God by the Founder, who 
had success to win souls and teach them how to make heaven." 



A Dear Girl Came 

A homeless girl asked to come in the Home (and to think 
there can be a dear soul like that) , about 22 years of age. When 
1 had her examined by the Assistant Matron I thought I had to 
sink out of sight. Inmates were asked to come and help her. 
I could not believe it. I got a whole outfit of clothes for change 
and cut her hair to heal her, and when she undressed they had 
to change help to get her finished. When they came to the 
feet she had half inch nails and filth — well, it was more than I 
could stand. I gave her a good, common sense talk, and 
when she was cleaned up none could hardly eat anything that 
day. But she seemed to realize the change, and, after a few 
services that I thought might help her to understand, I asked 
her to come to Jesus' feet and repent. She did, and she was not 
long seeking. The Lord answered her prayer. Dear reader, I 
dropped, as I bowed down with her, and asked the Lord to have 
mercy on this dear soul with a bleeding heart, lost in sin. And 
our tears moved God, through Christ His Son, to save her. And 
Christ bountifully answered her prayer, and it throbbed into 
praise and thankfulness. The simple, artless way in which 
these incidents were done encouraged me to take the vilest of 
sinners to battle with, to fold them in my arms and bring them 
to Thee, my blessed Saviour. A great history may be written 



78 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

of the happenings in those eleven years while I was founding 
it. Though always ready to help souls while building and carry 
out the Lord's plans, yet there was no opportunity lost to help 
souls. The first thing she asked, after a few weeks' time, was 
to leave her go, as she was engaged to be married and was 
going to be honest. I prayed for the dear soul so much and did 
not like to let her go so soon, but she promised me to be good 
and live a Christian life. Six months later I came across her 
and she introduced me to her husband, and they were a nice 
couple. And again I say. Lord help me. As I heard someone 
call my name I looked around. I did not know anyone, but she 
called again to come across the street. I found a nice looking 
girl and a nice man, as she told me, an inmate of Beulah 
Anchorage. And again I said in my heart, God help me to go 
on with such work, for I know that thou, O God, will be 
pleased. ''Help me," was the cry of my heart. 

Matron Steinmetz sometimes said, *Tou do things I can't 
do in undertaking to rescue such girls and risk the building 
plans. I can't. ''Well, you do what I can't do," I replied, as I 
did not have time to do the Matron's work. "You are a faith- 
ful superintendent in a saving housekeeping manner." Thank 
God for the Beulah Anchorage, founded as a rescue home for 
the homeless. 



Is It Our Duty to Rescue the Unfortunate and Fallen? 

My dear ones that read this book, find many mentioned 
that were rescued and many more to be rescued. Here is an 
incidence of how possible it is for Christ to receive all that come 
and meet the conditions: That of a boy who had been tried by 
court martial and ordered to be shot. The hearts of the father 
and mother were broken when they heard the news. In that 
home was a little girl. She had read the life of Abraham 



IT IS OUR DUTY TO RESCUE THE UNFORTUNATE 79 

Lincoln and she said: "Now if Abraham Lincoln knew how my 
father and mother loved their boy he would not let my brother 
be shot." She wanted her father to go to Washington to plead 
for his boy, but the father said: ''No, there is no use; the law 
must take its course. They have refused to pardon one or two 
who have been sentenced by that court martial, and an order 
has gone forth that the President is not going to interfere again 
if a man has been sentenced by court martial. He must suffer 
the consequences." The father and mother had no faith in the 
belief that their boy might be pardoned. But the little girl was 
strong in hope and got on the train, way up in Vermont, and 
started oflf to Washington. When she reached the White House 
the soldiers refused to let her in, but she told her pitiful story 
and they allowed her to pass. When she got to the room where 
the President's private secretary was he refused to allow her to 
enter the private office of the President. But the little girl told 
her story and it touched the heart of the private secretary, so 
he passed her in. As she went into Abraham Lincoln's room 
there were United States Senators, Generals, Governors and 
leading politicians, who were there on important business about 
the war, but the President happened to see that child standing 
at his door. He wanted to know what she wanted, and she 
went right to him and told her story in her own language. He 
was a father, and the great tears trickled down Abraham 
Lincoln's cheeks. He wrote a dispatch and sent to the army 
to have that boy sent to Washington at once. When he ar- 
rived the President pardoned him, gave him thirty days fur- 
lough and sent him home with the little girl to cheer the hearts 
of the father and mother. 

Do you want to know how to go to Christ? Go just as 
that little girl went to Abraham Lincoln. It may be possible 
that you have a dark story to tell. Tell it all; keep nothing 
back. If Abraham Lincoln had compassion on that little girl, 



80 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

heard her petition and answered it, do you think the Lord Jesus 
will not hear your prayer? Do you think that Abraham 
Lincoln or any man that ever lived on earth had as much com- 
passion as Christ? No, He will be touched when no one else 
will He will have mercy when no one else will if you will go 
right to Him. Amen. 

Confessing your sin and your need. He will save you. 
Down there in a dark alley in the city is a woman, aged forty, 
in a great fallen condition. I think if you want to get near hell 
you should go to a poor, fallen home — playing cards, swearing, 
drink, fight and filth and poor little ones and their soul's salva- 
tion neglected. See the want and distress that reign there, 
often in danger of murder through fighting. God's hand comes 
down, protects her defenseless head, and, when the man drinks, 
then she waits, expecting to hear his oaths and suffer his brutal 
treatment. Well, the woman that is fallen says: **I will go 
down to City Hall and they will see that I am permitted to enter 
the rescue home of Beulah Anchorage for girls and women. I 
need not stay with you. They have meetings and hear the word 
of God instead of curses. I believe that God is able to save 
me; and you go and hear some singing and rescue talk — not 
the song of a rebeller, but the strains of that good old hymn 
'Rock of Ages,' and get saved from your sins." The children 
are no longer afraid of the man nor his wife. Many homes are 
made happy by the regenerating power of the religion of 
Christ. 



PRODIGAL COMES HOME 81 

Prodigal Comes Home — ^A Precious Soul Was Redeemed 

Finding converts from the Beulah Anchorage in different 
churches and denominations reliable in its membership, and 
hearing from their life experience of redeeming grace unknown 
similar to some in this book of which I refer to, Dilla Rhoads 
Rightmeyer was one the great wonders, as deeply fallen ones 
can be. She was a native of Boyertown, Pa., but spent practi- 
cally her whole life in this city. She was a graduate of the 
local High School in the City of Reading, Pa., and until forty 
years ago taught at Fourth and Elm Streets School. She was a 
member of Trinity Lutheran Church. She then got married to 
Mr. Rightmeyer, and he was a drinking man, and she fell with 
him and became so low that she became an outcast. All her 
friends forsook her, except her cousin, Mary Ruth. Even after 
her death they did not come to the funeral. One morning she 
came to the Founder's home, 602 Schuylkill Avenue, Reading, 
Pa. She said she came to ask me "if I would take her into the 
Beulah Anchorage Home, as I am tired of my life." Then I 
asked her who she was. ''Why," she says, ''where you had a 
cottage prayer meeting before you founded this Home. My 
name is Dilla." Then I recalled her dear mother who was so 
blessed, and after I had closed the service she came and fell on 
my neck and commenced to cry as though her heart was broken. 
"Oh, my Dilla, Sister Landis! Oh, my Dilla! If she only was 
converted. Pray for her." She did not come in; she was out 
in the kitchen, and when she told me I remembered. I was 
anxious to have her. I said, "Yes, for you I was praying. You 
go down to Beulah Home and tell the Matron to take you in," 
and I also called her by phone, telling her to take Dilla in, and 
she stayed. After I had two meetings, others came forward; 
but the third meeting after I gave the message God gave me 
and built an altar of chairs I went to her and asked her if she 
felt as if she ought to do the least for Christ that died for you. 



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Kindly come forward. The least we can do is to confess our 
sins and feel sorry and repent from the depths of our hearts and 
Christ will answer your prayer. And she said: "Yes, I have a 
mother in heaven, and I want to go to see her. I will come 
and seek His forgiveness." And she did seek earnestly, and God 
answered her prayer, and her testimony was: "I am glad I came 
to Beulah Home. Here is where I was redeemed, and I will be 
true to my Saviour the rest of my life." Whenever she made 
a mistake she asked forgiveness of the Lord. She was a true 
and faithful worker for the Home. 

As I had the collar button box plan for the collection 
of twenty-five cents, the proceeds of which were to be devoted 
to the building fund, I gave her that plan to address, with five 
processes ready to be sent, as her mission work for Beulah 
Anchorage Home. And she took pride in it, and it never was 
necessary to look after her work ; she was on time and particu- 
lar. But through her fallen condition the Matron and I had 
to superintend her bodily cleanliness, as she was for twenty 
years a dope and drunkard, and she received only two tablets 
daily from the Matron to make her normal. She was willing 
to come under Home rules and used it strictly as medicine. The 
physicians. Dr. Miller, Dr. Burkholder and Dr. Kurtz, said it was 
less than medicine; it made her normal, and she could do the 
addressing of the boxes. She kept her faith — the nearer the 
end, the stronger her faith. 

She came under peculiar trials after I resigned and stepped 
out and came and asked my forgiveness, as she was tempted 
to tell untruths and speak unkindly against me. I answered, 
"Yes, mother, you ask God and He will forgive you. You did 
it so they let you remain," and she answered "Yes." 

She became sick and was faithful to God and me as the 
Founder. Thank God. She was a sister of Dr. M. Albert 



PRODIGAL COMES HOME 83 

Rhoads, of Boyertown. She died in June, 1920, of a complica- 
tion of diseases, aged 68. Her last testimony was no medicine 
of any kind — she wanted to suffer it all and meet her mother 
in heaven — that she was ready. Her suffering was great, all 
her friends forsook her, but a cousin was faithful and a good 
Samaritan. She met Mrs. Martha McHenry, No. 318 South 
Eighth Street, Reading, Pa., and was truly a good Samaritan in 
her suffering, for which the Lord will reward her, and she got 
her Bible that she studied since rescued and marked, which was 
presented by the Founder when she came to the Beulah 
Anchorage Home years ago. She sacrificed her last eight years 
to help make the Beulah Home what it was. She went to her 
heavenly home in peace to meet her mother and the Founder, 
to part no more. 

I've wandered far away from God, 
The path of sin too long I've trod; 
I've wasted many precious years, 
I am tired of sin and straying; Lord, 
I'll trust Thy love, believe Thy word. 
He cleansed me in His blood, I know. 
He washed me whiter than the snow; 
At home I am now with my Saviour ^o dear — 
The past it lies buried, now I have no fear; 
He calls me, come up higher to join the blood- 
washed throng. 

(Praise God.) 

Dilla was very ambitious. She would take the lawn 
mower and attend to the grass and have a girl to help her. If 
the marketing was poor she mustered up her lame body and 
would take one of the women along and go out for more and 
come back with full and plenty; and when we wanted a good 
noodle soup she was able to make it and they would all enjoy 



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it. But through her fallen condition her bodily cleanliness 
would have to be attended to, and I would see that she was nice 
and clean; then she was happy and steered on. God blessed her 
in the eight years in that Home. Wonderful. 

She was one of the three staff that the chamber allowed 
me to keep for life, and she certainly had earned her life's 
home. At Christmas she made something as a treat for her 
income pension, banana layer cake, which certainly was de- 
licious, and some holidays she planned oysters prepared in her 
way, and on other holidays, during the watermelon season, she 
would get one, and all those inmates that were there during 
those eight years and five years while Mrs. Steinmetz was 
Matron, they never forgot Dilla, nor Jose, nor Mabel who made 
the place a home. Those bars were for order from outside 
and insdie for such that nedeed extra order, but there was no 
prison about it, except to such that clung to their contrariness 
and forgot the good. 



4 



PART SECOND 



Try to Serve God and Mammon 

An appeal to matter of fact. Matt. 6:24. *'No man can 
serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the 
other." Can we serve two masters? See Luke 16:10-1 1-12- 
13, which says: 'Te cannot serve two masters." As given 
plainly in the constitution of Beulah Anchorage, page 8, you 
find in this book, last page. Book of Constitution. To serve 
Mammon is flesh. I Peter 4:25. It says all flesh is of grass 
and glory of man is grass. ''God resisteth the proud and giveth 
grace to the humble." I Peter 3:5-6. It demonstrates man's 
weakness who consents in deed to the low estate that is not 
good, but finds not how to fulfill it. Rom. 5 :6-l9. As a bat- 
tery erected against our pride, when it has its due effect, it 
silences all our self-righteous pleas and convinces us that a re- 
turning sinner is not justified by works of law, but by the faith 
of Christ Jesus, a broken law, a law which worketh wrath 
being absolutely unable to absolve its violator. In a word, it 
is our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ and drives us with the 
rod of threatening punishments to make us touch the sceptre 
of mercy held out to us from the throne of grace. Sort them 
and you will have two bands — the one of skeptics and the other 
of formalists, who, though at us show great enmity, between 
themselves are as Pilate and Herod, and like them made 
friends together by jointly deceiving and condemning Jesus. 

"There peace dwells with freedom. 
There foes are not feared. 
There childhood is cherished 
And age is revered." 

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Ye cannot serve two masters, and if, with the candle of 
the Lord, search the Jerusalem of professing Christians, you 
will perceive that the want of a heartfelt, humble knowledge of 
their natural depravity, gives birth to the double-mindedness 
of hypocrites, if those who once distinguished themselves in 
the evangelical race, you will easily trace back to the same 
corrupt source the seemingly opposite errors of the loose anti- 
Mammon and the Pharisaic legalist, those spiritual thieves by 
whom the sincere Christian is perpetually reviled, and, in short, 
you will be convinced that if you set your eyes upon a man 
who is not yet deeply conscious of his corrupt and low estate, 
or whose consciousness of it has worn away, you behold either 
a trifler in religion, a dead-hearted Pharisee, a sly hypocrite, a 
self-conceited formalist, a scoffing infidel or a wretched 
apostate. You cannot serve God and Mammon. For repent- 
ance cut out the Mammon. Worldliness with all its sins may 
endure for a night or days, but joy will come in the morning. 

The joy of God's salvation and pardon of your sins, hav- 
ing been forgiven you, you will then love much and admire in 
proportion the riches of Divine wisdom and goodness, justice 
and power. 

A converted sinner cannot only escape impending ruin, 
but enter into present possession of a spiritual paradise where 
peace and joy blossom together, and whence welcome death 
will ere long translate our triumphant soul to those unseen, un- 
heard of, inconceivable glories which God has prepared for 
them that love Him. I Cor. 2:9. The children of God be- 
come characters of evidences that they are born for heaven by 
their new birth, that holiness and meekness, that patience and 

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TRY TO SERVE GOD AND MAMMON 87 

faith that shine in the actions and suflferings of the saints, all the 
children of God by faith in Christ Jesus, whom, having not 
seen, we love, yet believing, we rejoice with joy unspeakable 
and full of glory, receiving the end of our faith, the salvation 
of our souls. 



ADDRESS 



To Such as Inquire What Must We Do to be Saved ? 

Serious reader, having taken my leave of the thoughtless 
gay who regard an appeal to their reason as little as they do 
the warnings of their conscience, I return to Thee. Serious and 
well disposed reader, I am too much concerned for my soul's 
welfare to lay down my pen without showing thee more per- 
fectly the way to the kingdom of heaven by testifying to thee 
repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. 
Thou ar^, happily, weary of feeding upon the musks of earthly 
vanities. I have a right, therefore, as a steward of the mys- 
teries of God, to bring out of the Divine treasury the pearls of 
evangelical truth, and I gladly cast them before thee. Thou 
wantest the feelings of the royal penitent, when he said: **Be- 
hold, I was shapen in iniquity; I acknowledge my transgressions 
and my sin is before me. The sorrow of the world, unkind- 
ness of friends, pride, malice, envy. God covers His children 
with love, comfort, enriches them with His sweet blessings out 
of the ocean of love, and they shall have joy within that the 
world knows nothing of. The secret is the throne of grace, 
which gives unto us sufficient to get to the world without end. 

When the arrows of the word fly abroad, drop the shield 
of unbelief, make bare thy breast, welcome the blessed shaft, 
and remember that the only way of conquering sin is to fall 
wounded and helpless at the Redeemer's feet. It is far better 
to go thy way weeping and seeking the pearl of great price 
till thou really find it than to rest contented with a hasty conceit 
that thou art possessed of it when thou art not striving to enter 
in at the straight gate. For many will seek to enter in and 
shall not be able. Jesus Christ says: "He witnesses to our 

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SAVED BY GRACE 89 

Spirit the evidence born of the Spirit, the glory of God shining 
in the face of Jesus Christ and the kingdom of heaven opened 
to all believers." 

Praise His dear name — yes, Jesus died for all. 



Saved by Grace 

God in His mercy made Himself known, revealed His 
power in His forgiveness. A dear mother has been brought in 
the Beulah Anchorage Rescue Home by her daughters, two 
beautiful girls — one eighteen, the other twenty-four. They 
came and asked the Founder if they can bring mother, as she 
is so deep in drinking that we have to break up housekeeping, 
or the officer will be after her, and kindly asked me to take her, 
as she was adapted to drink for years — a slave to it. I labored 
with her, sometimes right in the service. When I gave the 
Bible message that no drunkard can enter the kingdom of 
heaven, nor any intemperanceness, conceitedness, untruthful- 
ness and malice, only the blood-washed souls enter heaven's 
gate. The good book tells us so. The mother was 58 years of 
age. "Now, mother, the two girls are mine, as they cannot 
understand you any longer." ''No, no," she says. "Yes, 
ma'am, they are until you hate beer and rum and repent; until 
God takes that appetite out of you; only God has the power to 
do it. He will, through His blessed Son Jesus Christ." She 
came and kissed my hand and said, ''I will repent; I want Christ 
to take all the appetite away." I told her, ''Jesus is ready to 
hear and answer your pra3^ers if you mean it and are de- 
termined." "Yes, yes, ma'am, I want Christ to do it for me. 
I want my girls," and she wept her way to the altar and prayed 
and God answered her. In five months I told the girls to get a 
nice place and she would be good, as I believed God helped her. 
In six months they came for her, and she left happy and kissed 



90 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

my hand and raised her right hand to heaven and said, "God 
help me." I said, **He will, now you trust and obey.'* And she 
had one test only and stood four years — praise God — and lived 
happily with her girls. God did it, as she was more than twenty 
years in the habit of drinking. How good God is if one comes 
to Him with all his heart. 

"Praise God from whom all blessings flow, 
Praise Him all creatures here below, 
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host. 
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost." 

A genuine conviction of our corruption and demerit, thus 
striking at the very root of one's pride, necessarily fills our 
hearts with inexpressible gratitude for every favor we receive, 
gives an exquisite relish to the least blessing we enjoy. Blessed 
are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they 
shall be filled, and teaches us to say: "With the thankful patri- 
arch, I am not worthy of Thee, least of all Thy mercies, and it 
renders us grateful to God. Light from heaven streaming o'er 
my pathway beaming, ever guides me onward till she and her 
daughters get home." 



PART FOURTH 



Between living faith and loving obedience the mystery of 
our salvation is thus opened; by grace are ye saved through 
faith which worketh by love, grace and rewards, or mercy on 
God's part and obedience on our own. According to the first 
of these axioms, all that go to heaven give divine grace the 
glory of their salvation, because they are all saved by mere 
favor through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ; and ac- 
cording to the second axiom, all that go to hell are obliged to 
clear divine justice, because they are condemned merely for 
their avoidable uneblief and obstinate disobedience. 

And how soon would thy gloomy fears give place to tri- 
umphant joy. Wouldst thou know Him better, behold Him 
through the glass of His word and not through the mist of thy 
fears. He fixes upon thee the piercing eye of His redeeming 
love and calls, continually calls, for thee: "Behold, I come with 
a strong hand; my reward is with me, and my work before me. 
Hearken unto me, ye stout-hearted that are from righteous- 
ness. 1 bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off. 
Seek ye Me while I may be found; call upon Me while I am near; 
return unto Me and I will have mercy upon you, and though 
ye have only done evil before Me from your youth, I will abund- 
antly pardon, for My thoughts are not revengeful, as your 
thoughts, nor My ways unloving, as your ways. In Me ye shall 
be saved with an everlasting salvation. Come, therefore, unto 
Me all ye that travail and are heavy laden, and I will give you 
rest. My yoke is easy and My burden light and My rest 
glorious. Oh, every one that thristeth, come ye to the waters, 
and he that hath no money, come ye, buy and eat all that can 
revive — strength and delight your souls, yea, come buy wine 

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and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do ye 
spend your money for that which is not bread and your labor 
for that which satisfieth not. Hearken diligently unto me, eat 
that which is good and let your soul delight itself in fatness. In- 
cline your ear and come unto Me; hear and your soul shall live. 
I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure 
mercies of David, and you shall know Me from the least to the 
greatest, for I will forgive your iniquity and remember your sin 
no more. Oh, if thou knewest the gifts of God, wretched sin- 
ner, and who it is that saith unto thee, 'If any man thirst, let 
him come.' Come, then, let us now reason together, and 
though thy sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; 
though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." 

Why does not thy drooping heart, oh sinner, leap for joy 
or melt with gratitude at these tender invitations of thy 
Saviour? He is even now near to thy heart. He stands at the 
door and gently knocks by the word of His grace. If thou 
hearest His voice, and open by believing. He will come in. The 
word of reconciliation shall be powerfully ingrafted into thy 
heart and the truth shall make thee free. 



Bringing Sister to Jesus 

These facts are being brought to light more and more 
every day. Even Christian girls need to be on the alert. One- 
fourth of the fallen women in this country are from Christian 
homes and Sunday Schools. Ever since I was fifteen years of 
age I have been engaged in Christian work, which is over fifty 
years. For the last twenty years I was engaged in prison work 
and Beulah Anchorage Home — nine years prison work and 
eleven years in Beulah Home — and I prayed the Lord to give 
us girls that choose as their call in life, directed by the Holy 
Spirit, for home mission work, to engage in more strenuous 



BRINGING SISTER TO JESUS 93 

efforts along the rescue and preventing lines and reach some 
innocent girls and prevent their getting to the slums, in the hos- 
pital and potter's field. 

Fifty thousand men and women are engaged in procuring 
and living on the earnings of these women and girls. We had 
several white slave girls in the Home. 

All the regular inmates, as well as those who applied at 
the Home for temporary shelter, were assisted to the extent of 
our ability. Ninety per cent, were converted, took Christ into 
their hearts and hves; some found homes as domestics, while 
others returned to their parents. 

Over 70 per cent, have kept faithful. Many a girl comes 
from a good family; she is persuaded by the demon tempter, 
or otherwise went downward, and soon became careless and 
slaves to their circumstances, while some girls were procured 
by men in a house of wrong. The records show that five thou- 
sand girls die every month in the United States from lives of 
sin and shame, many of whom could be rescued and trained to 
live lives of usefulness if we were more faithful in our efforts to 
save them. Thousands are beguiled from poverty and thrown 
out into the world to earn a livelihood amidst temptation, with 
wages so low that only two doors seem open to them, viz.: 
starvation or a life of shame. Many are homeless and mother- 
less, or wicked fathers or mothers, who try to lead them into 
a life of sin and degredation. By our united efforts let us try 
to win all in our power and lead them in the path of righteous- 
ness. The Beulah Home presents an open door of hope, indus- 
trial Christian training, that has brought, and will continue to 
bring, gladness all those eleven years and sunshine and salva- 
tion to many hearts. Some who enter our Home seek refuge 
from unholy environment, where it would be impossible to es- 
cape the pitfalls that surround them, and are saved before the 



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fatal step is taken, so that not all the girls who enter the 
Anchorage are necessarily fallen girls. This was a Christian 
home for those whose temptations or unfortunate surroundings 
would prove their ruin unless a helping hand is extended to 
them. Teach them to save in clothes, as many desire ex- 
pensive wearing apparel, above their standing. Poor girls. 
After they become Christians then they can save and make an 
honest living. Earnings were low and we tried to teach them 
to live according to their income, to keep house savingly, make 
ends meet and save to lay up a mite for home and for rainy 
days and give the mite to God's cause. 

This institution was especially intended to reform and 
save, not to encourage sin. Each girl is addressed by her first 
name. They are not allowed to speak of their past lives, unless 
for God, as Paul did, calling himself the chief of sinners, and 
Christ called Paul as one of the elect, and Paul got converted 
and consecrated his life to God and was willing to take all the 
persecution the Christian had to bear, as Paul was one of the 
wicked ones who persecuted and killed the Christians. And he 
turned and had to take his share, and he became so radical that 
he went right straight forward and preached Jesus the crucified 
one. They took him and threw him into prison, but it did not 
take Christ out of his heart. He was not going to give in to 
those persecutors, as he had a taste of heaven and he was de- 
termined to make heaven. They nailed him to the persecution 
cross. So I was determined to get a Home for the fallen if they 
killed me; but it says: "If we give our life for Christ He will 
see we have it." And He did wonders which no human being 
understands — what I met and stood without complaint. I told 
it to Jesus alone. Not all the girls and women who enter the 
Anchorage were necessarily fallen girls, but we as mankind are 
all fallen through Adam and Eve, therefore we must have a 
heart for Mary Magdalene as well as for Paul. Christ had hard 



A WONDERFUL SURPRISE 95 

names for those Pharisees — a form and fine dishes, but no 
Christ in it. He that taketh up the burden of fainting lighteneth 
his own load. The Almighty will put His arms underneath them 
who shall lean upon the Lord. Blessed is the way of the 
helpers — the companions of the Christ. 

"Don't delay any longer, sinner. 
There is danger thus for you; 
Even now take the gift so priceless 
And escape sin's awful due." 



A Wonderful Surprise 

A dear girl, gentle, refined, was deceived by a young man 
who was unconcerned, and that dear girl was left unfortunate, 
and at last was left homeless. She got bewildered and walked 
out and landed in the City Park. On account of her exciting 
circumstances she gave birth to a baby girl in City Park and 
wrapped it in her coat and walked to the Homeopathic Hos- 
pital. After twelve days they asked Beulah Home if there was 
room? I was glad to have open door and able to say *Tes, 
there is room for a girl with a sweet baby girl." And it was 
the most beautiful baby we had to take care of — fair skin and 
blue eyes and fine features, no mark on the body — perfect. 
Jesus blessed the dear mother. Jesus only knows. And oh, I 
was so proud of the mother — her heroic action in reaching the 
hospital with a new-born babe. I thanked God that He pro- 
tected her and gave her sufficient strength to reach this place — 
yes, reached a place of comfort. She got along fine, after con- 
version, and when strong enough went back to her aunt, after 
a few months. They took pity on her when they saw how 
pretty the baby was and how she loved it, and she was faithful 
to her child. How I wept for joy at such a rare experience. 



96 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

Praise God forever and ever. She trusted in Him. I believed 
what Jesus promised, that he would make the wounded whole. 
I rejoiced when I heard Him saying: *'It is better further on. 
We shall meet to part no more. When the day breaks o'er the 
hills, continue in prayer and watch in the same with thanks- 
giving." Col. 4:2. "The eternal God is thy refuge and under- 
neath are the everlasting arms." Deut. 33:27. 



Can Good Doctrine Save One 

Now, if you want to know the way of life, believe that 
Jesus Christ is a personal Saviour. Cut away from all doctrines 
and creeds and come right with all your heart to the Son of 
God. If you have been feeding on dry doctrine there is not 
much growth on that kind of food. Doctrines are to the soul 
like feeding on dry husks. The soul must be fed of the bread 
sent down from heaven. Now, this looks reasonable. Man lost 
life by unbelief, by not believing God's word, and got life back 
again by taking God's word. In other words, we get up where 
Adam fell down. When people say they cannot believe, show 
them Acts 16:31, Acts 17:3. Many will meet you with a 
scowl and say, "I don't know what it is to believe in order to 
be saved." The Word says, "Seek ye and ye shall find; knock 
and it shall be opened unto you." Acts 3:19. Repent ye, 
therefore, and be converted. Why unbelief? Has God ever 
broken His promise in these six thousand years. The devil and 
men have been trying all this time and have not succeeded in 
showing that He has broken a single promise. There would be 
a jubilee in hell today if one word that He has spoken could be 
broken. If a soul says they cannot believe, it is well to press 
him on that one thing. The Apostle John says: "If we receive 
the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. He that be- 
lieveth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself, this 
record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in 
His Son." 1 John 5:9. 



A MESSAGE 



Words of Counsel 

It is dangerous for those who are seeking salvation to lean 
upon the experience of other people. The trouble is that we 
have too much strength and confidence in ourselves. A captain, 
who was dying, once said, ''Glory to God, the anchor holds." 
He trusted in Christ. His anchor had taken hold of the solid 
rock. An Irishman said, on one occasion, 'That he trembled, 
but the rock never did." We want to get sure footing for those 
who are afraid of falling and fear they will not hold out. It is 
God's work to hold. Some people have an idea that they have 
to keep themselves and Christ, too. In II Timothy 1 :12, Paul 
says: "I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that 
He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him 
against that day. It is a grand persuasion to give the dying 
soldier rest in the dying hour. Has not God the power to keep 
faith when God reflected that the distance was to be accom- 
plished by tick, tick, tick. It took fresh courage to go its daily 
journey. Christians to commit themselves to the keeping of 
his Heavenly Father. Paul's advice, II Tim. 2:23, "Foolish 
and unlearned questions avoid; the secret of the Lord is with 
them that fear Him and He will show them His covenant." 
Ps. 25:14. 



Some One I Heard Say, I Wish I Knew How to be Saved 

I heard a doctor say a surgeon's custom was, before per- 
forming any operation, to say to the patient: 'Take a good look 
at the wound and then fix your eyes on me, and do not take 
them off until I get through," which is a good illustration. 
Sinner, take a good look at your sins and needs of Christ, then 

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fix your eyes upon Him and do not take them off until you get 
through to God and receive the witness through the Holy Spirit 
that your sins are forgiven, as He is always successful. Never 
fail to operate on your soul until it becomes whiter than snow. 
It is better to look at the remedy than at the wound. You may 
be looking on the face of your sainted mother tonight and feel 
that she is praying for you, but the time will come when you 
shall never see her any more unless you are born of God and 
live for Him in righteousness and return and walk in the light 
of God near His side. The reader may be a young man or a 
young lady who has recently stood by the bedside of a dying 
mother and she asked you to meet her in heaven, and you made 
the promise. Oh, you shall never see her any more, except you 
live for Him who died for you. If you could hear her speak, 
would she not say: ''Come this way, my son; come this way, my 
daughter." Obey your dear Christ, your best Friend. He says: 
"Come unto me and have eternal life in glory forever." 



Dear Reader, Have You a Brother There? 

Yes, we all have an elder brother there — Jesus, and from 
the heavenly shores he is calling you to come to Jesus. Let us 
turn our backs upon the world; let us give a deaf ear to the 
world; let us look to Jesus on the cross and be saved. Then we 
shall some day see the King in His beauty, and we shall go no 
more out. Listen to the Spirit's call, "Repent down at Jesus' 
feet." Be sorry for your sins and do not give up. God will 
answer your prayer, as David says: "Oh Lord, create in me a 
clean heart and a right spirit and give me the witness thereof." 
And he got it. We shall find out when Christ Divine creates 
that new heart. Thank God. In Luke 13:3 we read: "Except 
your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the Scribes 
and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter the kingdom of God." 



A PROMISE ANSWERED 99 

I would rather go into the kingdom with the younger brother 
than stay outside with the elder. An elder brother who could 
not rejoice at his younger brother's return would not be fit for 
the kingdom of God. It is a solemn thing to contemplate, but 
the curtain drops and leaves him outside and the younger 
brother within. To him the language of the Saviour under 
other circumstances seems appropriate: "Verily I say unto you, 
that the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God 
before you." Math. 21 :3l. Believing is the way to get power 
to love and serve God our Father and Creator of all and His 
gift of heaven, to bring all to pass by faith in Him. Glory! 
Amen! 



A Promise Answered 

I pray God that those who read this book may realize 
hundreds of bright jewels. Girls and women have escaped 
from destruction through the Beulah Anchorage, I am sure, 
and we have dear little children adopted in minister's families 
and other wealthy families that get all the education they can 
stand, and no doubt some become missionaries, and that counts 
double for the Beulah Anchorage Rescue Home. I waited until 
I was sure the call was from God, then I went to work with an 
ardor and courage. The Ministerial Association had put an in- 
vestigation committee on to stop my choosing such a 
prominent place for an institution like the rescue home, con- 
sidering it too great an undertaking. I answered: "The Lord 
showed me this place and He is able to see to it. I am not 
afraid as long as God is at the helm. He can steer it through." 
They proposed a side street. The girls need no alley, they need 
elevation and reputation, and to take the wayward and un- 
fortunate we expect to battle with the outside. We ask the 
Lord to convert them and help us to cultivate them until strong 
enough to stand against the temptation of the evil. 



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Souk Come to See Me 

Such inmates that were worrysome and asked for forgive- 
ness, 1 would give them a good Gospel talk and told them to 
obey what they were taught. How many times after I gave 
them the message the Lord gave me, as it says, ''His own shall 
open the mouth and God will fill it," and that is what He did to 
me. Then I built the altar and asked them kindly to come and 
kneel down and repent, which is the least we can do for a con- 
secration to repentance. My heart has bled when I have tried 
to aid some high-strung, sensitive young girls to a place of 
safety. Many are waiting for loving hands like Beulah Anchor- 
age girls and women, the vilest to be gathered in, but to stoop 
like the Founder did in the past. May it again find rescue 
workers to get the girls to take Christ in their hearts and life. 
And I did not need any amusements for them; 1 had no time, 
as there is so much to do — to till the rough ground to get rich 
soil, to bring forth fruit of righteousness and such that get there 
to see it in the right light, then they become spiritual, lose 
worldly inclinations and don't want to spent money for vanity. 

A lady gave a book to her girl friend to read, and :he 
glanced over it and said, ''No good." One day she came across 
this lady with a gentleman and introduced him as the author 
of the book she had loaned her to read, and she took a liking 
to the young man. She went home and got the book and 
read it and cried all the way through, and wrote and told him 
so. So it will work with our best friend, Jesus, who died the 
cruel death for our sins. And if we can grasp it, we take the 
Bible and read so that the tears roll and the soul be penitent 
and cry out for living water to satisfy our soul. And they love 
to worship "God in the beauty of Holiness." 



A STRANDED GIRL 101 

A Stranded Girl 

The story is told of a young woman in Scotland who left 
her home, and became an outcast in Glascow. Her mother 
sought her far and wide, but in vain. At last, she caused her 
picture to be hung upon the walls of the Midnight Mission 
rooms, where abandoned women resorted. Many gave the 
picture a passing glance. One lingered by the picture. It is 
the same dear face that looked down upon her in her childhood. 
She has not forgotten her ''cast oflf," sorrowing child, or her 
picture would never have been hung upon those walls. The 
lips seemed to open and whisper, ''Come home, I forgive you, 
and love you still." The poor girl sank down overwhelmed with 
her feehngs. She was the prodigal daughter. The sight of her 
mother's face had broken her heart. She became truly peni- 
tent for her sins and with a heart full of sorrow and shame, 
returned to her forsaken home. And mother and daughter 
were once more united after she repented and took in her heart 
and life. "Nothing speaks to us of the love of God like the 
cross of Christ." Come with me to Calvary and look upon the 
Son of God as He hangs there. Can you hear that piercing cry 
from His dying lips," "Father forgive them, for they know not 
what they do," and say that He does not love you? Greater 
love hath no man than this, John 15:13. Jesus Christ laid 
down His life for his enemies. He wants to wash you and 
make you whiter than snow. He wants you to walk with 
Him the crystal pavement of yonder bhssful world. He wants 
to admit you into His family and to make you a son or a 
daughter of heaven. Will you trample His love under your 
feet, or will you this hour give yourself to Him, not reformed 
only, but regenerated — new' creature in Christ Jesus? 



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Miss Sallie's Career 

My heart is so full and so anxious to see souls, the devil 
thinks he has for hell, rescued as a brand from the burning. 

Many Roman Catholics, as well as Protestants, were con- 
verted and took Jesus into their hearts and lives, born of the 
Spirit, at Beulah Home. St. John 3 :3 : ''Except a man be born 
again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." 

''Repent ye, therefore, and be converted, that your sins 
be blotted out." Acts 3:19. It cannot be repeated too often. 

A girl named Sallie came and asked if there was place for 
her, as she was unfortunate and homeless. Her people had for- 
saken her. She was quiet and obedient and when the Founder 
had confession, and all had been pacified and things were nice 
and united for service, and 1 gave the message God gave me, 
Sallie got upset and left the room, followed by the Matron to 
tell her to come in, as she was not allowed to leave service 
without permission because the Founder talked against the 
priest. The Matron explained that she ought to wait until she 
understood, as she talked not against the church, only Bible, and 
that came in with the crucifixion. 

By the time the Founder had a few more services and gave 
the message God gave through His Holy Spirit, as the word 
says, "We shall open our mouths and Christ promised to fill 
it," and it reached Sallie's heart as well as the others that came 
in and were given an invitation, and Sallie came, kneeling at 
the altar with the rest to confess her sins and take Christ in her 
heart and life, and she found joy and peace with her Lord, as 
Jesus loves all sinners to come home who have wandered far 
away. Now she enjoyed the pardon and blessing as joy filled 
her soul. She loved to study the Bible and lived for Christ. 
She stayed until strong enough, went back to her people in 
Philadelphia and worked and struggled along with her baby. 



RESCUE THE PERISHING 103 

This wonderful story of God's love for sinners is sent out 
with a prayer that it may catch the eye and reach the heart and 
bring others to know our precious Saviour before too late. 



Rescue the Perishing 

Lillywas brought in and placed in our care at the age of 
14 and had been here for over one year. She got converted 
and was also under our care for several years while living out. 
She finally got married. Both are converted and get along fine. 
They joined the Brethren Church and are faithful. Jesus says: 
"Even I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for my sake. 
I will guide thee continually and satisfy thy soul in draught, and 
thou Shalt be like a watered garden, or like a spring of water, 
whose waters do not fail." Jesus says: *'0, how often would I 
have gathered thee in years past, as a hen gathers her brood 
under her wings. How often would I have led thee, as an eagle 
fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh 
them and beareth them; but thou wouldst not; nevertheless, 
this is still the day of my power, mercy and love. Keep true, 
keep faithful, by and by we understand all." 

But while we remain strangers to our helpless and hopeless 
state by nature, far from making this proper use of the law, we 
trust in it and fancy that our unsprinkled obedience to it is the 
way of salvation. Thus we go about to establish our own right- 
eousness, making light of the atoning blood which marks the 
new and living way to heaven. This very mistake ruined the 
Pharisees of old and destroyed their numerous followers in all 
ages. Rom. 9:31. Therefore, till you see yourselves corrupt, 
impotent creatures, you will openly neglect the Redeemer, give 
to your aggravated sins the name of human frailties and trust 
to your baflfled and yet boasted endeavors — self-deception. 



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To sum up and close these important remarks, look at 
those-who in mystic Babylon are not truly sensible of their total 
fall from God, and you will see them setting their own reason 
above the Holy Scriptures and their works in competition of 
Christ. 

Inquire into their principles and you will discover slightly 
received and as unnecessary the doctrines of salvation by faith 
in Christ and regeneration by the Spirit of God. Examine their 
conduct and you find all commit sin and receive the mark of 
the beast, secretly in the right hand or openly in their fore- 
heads. Rev. 13:16. 



The Gateway Into the Kingdom 

"Except a man be born of God he cannot enter the king- 
dom of heaven." John 3:3. 

There is no portion of the word of God, perhaps, with 
which we are more familiar than this passage. I suppose if I 
were to ask those readers if they believe that Jesus Christ 
taught the doctrine of the new birth, nine-tenths of them would 
say, ''Yes, I believe He did." The words of this Scripture are 
true. They embody one of the most solemn questions that can 
come before us. We can afford to be deceived about many 
things rather than about this one thing. Christ makes it very 
plain. He says: "Except a man be born again he cannot see 
the kingdom of God, much less inherit it." This doctrine of 
the new birth is, therefore, the foundation of all our hopes for 
the world to come. It is really the A, B, C of the Christian re- 
ligion. My experience has been this — that if a man is unsound 
on this doctrine he will be unsound on almost every other fund- 
amental doctrine in the Bible. A true understanding of this 
subject will help a man to solve a thousand difficulties that he 
may meet with in the word of God. Things that before seemed 



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very dark and mysterious will become very plain. The doctrine 
of the new birth upsets all false religion, all false views about 
God. 

A friend of mine once told me that in one of his after- 
meetings a man came with a long list of questions written out 
to which he requested answers. He said: *'If you can answer 
these questions satisfactorily I made up my mind to be a Chris- 
tian." "Don't you think," said my friend, ''that you had better 
come to Christ first; then you can look into these questions." 
The man thought that perhaps he had better do so. After he 
had received Christ he looked again at his list of questions, but 
then it seemed to him as if they had all been answered. Nico- 
demus came with his trouble mind, and Christ said to him, "Ye 
must be born again." He was treated altogether differently 
from what he expected, but I venture to say that was the most 
blessed night in all his life. To be born again is the free test 
blessing that will ever come to us in this world. Notice how 
the Scripture puts it: "Except a man be born again, born from 
above, born of the Spirit." From amongst a number of other 
passages where we find this word "except," I will just name 
three: "Except ye repent ye shall likewise perish." Luke 
13:3-5. "Except ye be converted and become as little chil- 
dren ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." Math. 
18:3. "Except your righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees 
ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven." Math. 
5 :20. They all three mean the same thing. 

I am so thankful that our Lord spoke of the new birth to 
this ruler of the Jews, this doctrine of the law, rather than to 
the woman at the well of Samaria, or to Matthew the publican, 
or to Bacheus. If He had reserved His teaching on this great 
matter for these three, or such as these people would have said, 
"Oh, yes, these publicans and harlots need to be converted." I 
suppose Nicodemus was one of the best specimens of the people 



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of Jerusalem. There was nothing on record against him. I 
think it is scarcely necessary for me to prove that we need to 
be born again before we are meat for heaven. 1 venture to say 
that there is no candid man but would say he is not fit for the 
kingdom of God until he is born again of the Holy Spirit. The 
Bible teaches us that man by nature is lost and guilty, and one 
experience confirms this. We know, also, that the best and 
holiest man, if he turn away from God, will very soon fall into 
sin. Now let me say what regeneration is not — it is not going 
to church. Very often I see people and ask them if they are 
Christians? *'Yes, of course I am; at least, I think I am. I 
go to church every Sunday. At, but this is not regeneration. 
Others say, '*I am trying to do what is right. Am I not a Chris- 
tian? Is not that a new birth? " No, what has that to do with 
being born again. There is yet another class — those who have 
turned over a new leaf and think they are regenerated. No, 
forming a new resolution is not being born again. Nor will 
being baptized do you any good. Yet you hear people say: 
"Why, I have been baptized and I was born again when I was 
baptized." They believe that because they were baptized into 
the church they were baptized into the kingdom of God. I tell 
you that it is utterly impossible. You may be baptized into the 
church and yet not be baptized into the Son of God. Baptism is 
all right in its place. God forbid that 1 should say anything 
against it, but if you put that in the place of regeneration, in 
the place of the new birth, it is a terrible mistake. You cannot 
be baptized into the kingdom of God. If any one reading this 
rests his hopes on anything else, on any other foundation, I 
pray that God may sweep it away. 

Another class says: "I go to the Lord's Supper. I partake 
uniformly of the sacrament." Blessed ordinance. Jesus said 
that as often as ye do it ye commemorate His death. Yet that 
is not being born again; that is not passing from death into life. 



THE GATEWAY INTO THE KINGDOM 107 

Jesus says plainly, and so plainly that there need not be any 
mistake about it: ''Except a man be born of the Spirit, he can- 
not enter into the kingdom of God." What has a sacrament to 
do with that? What has going to church to do with being born 
again? Another man comes up and says: "I say my prayers 
regularly." Still, I say, that is not being born of the Spirit. It 
is a very solemn question when that comes up before us. And 
oh, that every reader would ask himself earnestly and faith- 
fully, ''Have I been born again? Have I been born of the 
Spirit? Have I passed from death unto life?" There is a 
class of mankind who say that special religious meetings are 
very good for a certain class of people. They would be very 
good if you could get the fallen and the vilest there, or get the 
gambler there, or get other vicious people there — that would 
do a great deal of good. But we do not need to be converted. 
To whom did Christ utter these words of wisdom? To Nico- 
demus. Who was Nicodemus? Was he a gambler, or a thief? 
No; no doubt he was one of the very best men in Jerusalem. 
He was an honorable councilor. He belonged to the Sanke.- 
drim; he held a very high position; he was an orthdox man; he 
was one of the very soundest, and yet what did Christ say to 
him: "Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom 
of God." But I imagine someone saying: "What am I to do? 
I cannot creat life. I certainly cannot save myself." You cer- 
tainly cannot, and we do not claim that you can. We tell you 
it is utterly impossible to make a man better without Christ, but 
that is what men are trying to do. They are trying to patch up 
this old "Adam nature." There must be a new creation, and if 
it is a new creation it must be the work of God. In the first chap- 
ter of Genesis man does not appear. There is no one there to 
fake part. When God created the earth He was alone. That 
which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the 
Spirit is Spirit. John 3 :6. You might as well try to make your- 



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selves pure and holy without the help of God. It would be just 
as easy for you to do that as for the colored amn to wash him- 
self white. A man might just as well try to leap over the moon 
as to serve God in the flesh. Therefore, that which is born of 
the flesh is flesh. Rom. 8:1-13. And that which is born of 
the Spirit is Spirit. Not to trust or obey God would be like a 
man who refused a pardon for fear he should get into prison 
again. 

May God let the light shine into your heart to be willing 
to yield and pray through, until you get the assurance that you 
passed from death into life everlasting. 



More Abundant Life 

A new inspiration is to be distinctly manifested both in 
soul and body as the continued flow of the life of Christ is re- 
ceived, there being no impediment to obstruct. The life of 
Christ is reproduced in mortal man. Can you estimate the 
length, the breadth, the depth and the height of this abundant 
life? There is no limit given in the word of God. We are to 
go on and on, daily proving what it will do for us. If it is in 
us, a well of water springing up into everlasting life, not for our- 
selves, but for others. This is a wondrous beauty. How many 
tired, weary, crushed hearts there are plodding on every thorny, 
impenetrable path, and how sweet is the privilege of giving 
them a drink from life's pure fountain. It disperses earth's 
sorrow, quickens into new life weak purposes. God would that 
Thy people lived in Thee, not in themselves. A great work is 
left in our care, of gathering in the lost for whom God died. 
It is God's work, the Beulah Home, and carried on to rescue 
lost souls. Revivals that are carried on without seriousness, 
with much levity and little prayer may add numbers to the 
church, but it is only to deceive these unhappy souls if won, 



MORE ABUNDANT LIFE 109 

and the church is a worldly organization. The men who 
promote them, and they who are deceived by them, are alike 
in danger, and if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into a 
ditch. Matt. 15:14. 

To have a genuine revival of religion, those who promote 
it must be thoroughly in earnest and feel their constraining 
forgiveness deeply. 'They that sow in tears, shall reap in joy." 
Ps. 125:6-7. Then, to make our labors eifectual, we must 
pray and work in faith, expecting success. The Holy Spirit 
inspires the love for souls and a desire to help them, and then 
Christ gives us the power to overcome all evil. Here is a won- 
derful secret, most precious and encouraging to have, the Holy 
Spirit abiding within, inspiring every prayer, all our thoughts 
and plans for the day, so that each day becomes a day of vic- 
tory, and we are the fruit-bearing branches. Oh, God, make 
Thy people a fruit-bearing people continually by thine in- 
dwelling life for daily service. 

David says, Psalms 145:14-17-19: "The Lord upholdeth 
all that fall and raiseth up all those that bowed down. 

'The Lord is righteous in all his ways and holy in all his 
works. 

''He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him. He also 
will hear their cry and serve all them that love and obey him." 



ADDRESS 



Rejecting Light 

It is a dangerous thing to reject the light that God sheds 
on our hearts. Every ray of light He grants us is essential to 
our present and eternal good and is a direct manifestation of 
infinite love. Hence, to disregard it is to necessarily work 
against our own interest. The word of God declares the danger 
of such a course by showing that it is possible to go so, in 
turning from the light, as to believe a lie after knowing the 
truth. Thess. 2:9-12. 'They knew the truth, but would not 
love it." This doubtless is what is meant by the light in us 
turning to darkness. When we hate and oppose the truth we 
will naturally look for an easier way, and some become an 
easy prey to the devil's delusion. How often have we seen this 
demonstration in many who were once saved and rejoiced in 
the truth, but by falling into temptation they lost the love of 
truth out of their hearts and continued to sin against light until 
they now declare that they are clear before God while practic- 
ing what they once denounced as evil and were blessed in so 
doing. They look upon the peace and joy that attended their 
life of obedience as unnecessary and sometimes as even fanati- 
cal. So, to evade the narrow way, they have hid themselves 
in the refuge of lies. But let it be remembered that truth is 
truth, and consequently the same facts exist regardless of their 
attitude toward them. 

Be up and doing. Tell it all to Jesus and He will straighten 
all out and cast it in the sea of forgetfulness. The good book 
tells us so. Therefore, don't neglect to tell Jesus and keep a 
daily account and be ready for His calling to our promised 
eternal home. 

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LIFTED INTO THE BEYONDS 111 

The light of judgment day will prove this true. To the 
eternal horrors of gain, we may go so far in rejecting light that 
the Holy Spirit will leave us to our own destruction. The old 
adage, ''While the lamp holds out to burn, the vilest sinner 
may return." And even they did not like to retain God in 
their knowledge. God gave them over to a reprobate mind. 
Rom. 1 :28. Men may give us over in despair of our salvation 
and yet the possibility of being saved may linger, but when 
God, seeing the hardness of our hearts, gives us over, we are 
hopelessly lost beyond all possible recovery. Such are without 
remedy, being past feeling, their conscience being seared with a 
hot iron, as we may continue to apply a red-hot iron to any 
part of our bodies until the nerves no longer respond to its 
touch, the flesh being seared or calloused. So by resisting the 
constant application of the truth we may become past feeling, 
or be no longer susceptible to the impress of the Holy Spirit. 
God will then give us over to hardness of heart. Listen — don't 
be negligent too long. Take warning. 



Instead of Hardness Ourselves, Listen 

Blessed Saviour, Thou wilt guide us. He will if we obey 
Him till we reach that blissful shore. 

Where the angels wait to join us 
In Thy praise for evermore. 

I kindly ask every one to be willing to take up the cross 
and get right with God and make heaven and not trifle away 
the privilege of salvation. 



Lifted Into the Beyonds 

Beyond the casualties of this life, beyond circumstances, 
doubts and fears, beyond probabilities or possibilities, sight and 



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sense, beyond apeparances, impressions, feelings, both in body 
or mind, faith in God lifts us up. What if we are bankrupts, 
since we belong to a firm whose wealth was never fathomed 
and whose abundance can never be exhausted and we are priv- 
ileged to draw just as our demands require both for soul and 
body? Weary one, look up; desponding one, take down thy 
harp from the willows. Begin to tune it to one of Zion's songs. 
You are not now in a strange land. Begin to sing, you are 
going to triumph gloriously. Through Christ's finished work 
claim at once pardon for all your iniquities. Is there still a want 
left unsatisfied in your longing heart? Draw night to God. He 
will draw nigh to you abundantly, above all you are able to ask 
or think. It is for His own glory that you should be victor. It 
is His interest as well as yours that you should be brought into 
complete liberty and live in the resurrection life of Christ, tak- 
ing Him moment by moment for every need, for you are not 
your own. He has bought you with a great price. He wants 
you to represent Him to all with whom you have to do. This 
you can do when you are lifted out of the life of self and 
brought into Christ in such relationship that you know you are 
a member of His body and that He is your very life. Manifest 
not only in your souls, but in our mortal bodies.. Quickening 
them by His Spirit that dwelleth in us. Oh, if I could encourage 
some poor, disheartened one to press into the kingdom! I reach 
out my hand to you and say: 'The Master is come and calleth 
for thee. Arise and come quickly to Him." Your case is in no 
way hopeless when every human refuge failed. We found 
Christ a perfect cure. Fear not, only believe and you shall see 
the salvation of the Lord. It is impossible for you to sink in 
the threatening waves if only you cry out, "Lord, save me or I 
perish." That same precious unseen hand which caught Peter 
will grasp you and set upon you a rock immovable in all waters 
and amid all storms. It is inexpressibly sweet to live and move 



BELIEVE AND THOU SHALT BE SAVED 113 

and have our being in God. All anxious thought for the mor- 
row gone. Dear readers, you want to work for God; you want 
to rescue perishing souls. Get at it. I enjoyed it wonderfully 
while I was at it those twenty years — Prison work nine 
years and the institution of Beulah Anchorage eleven years. It 
is twenty-three years since I came to Reading. I am sixty-eight 
years of age. My time is passing on. Many good people are 
jealous of me for the succes I had in this rescue work, though 
you will not mind the meanness, jealousy, malice and envy as 
long as you are in the work. And this book, who ever gets it, 
is the last of my life's work. Before I came to Reading I en- 
joyed church work; but prison and Beulah Anchorage for deep 
fallen souls. The Saviour came and gave me so much greater 
joy. Paul had hard suflfering and persecution, but, above all, 
enjoyed preaching Jesus, the crucified one. Praise God. 

Jesus, the fairest of ten thousand, the one altogether body, 
the bright and morning star. 



Believe and Thou Shalt be Saved 

Well, I cannot help believing in Jesus Christ, because 
when I became convicted of my sins and was willing to seek 
Him with all my heart. He came into my heart and the evidence 
was born of the Spirit. I never backslided, as when I made a 
mistake I went to Jesus and confessed it, and He was as good as 
His word, forgave me all my debts as I forgive my debtors. 
I praised His name and I went in for all Christ had for me from 
twelve years of age until I was sixty-eight. And I never can 
express how wonderfully I enjoyed Christian life. And I never 
try to serve both Mammon and God; that is why the world 
don't understand me. Many Christians get mixed by listening 
to what the evil has to say. So many, out of jealousy, are 
ready to use it as a tool ''to do me," and others it weakens so 



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that I see them watch my every move. Well, it matters not to 
me. I just go on and trust in my Saviour. He sticketh closer 
than a brother. He is all the world to me. I am taken captive 
22 months and am put in a cemented space alone (according to 
my vision), as John on the Isles of Potmess, and a siege of 
mercy by my side. All efforts made out of duty, and people 
seem like in the time of Pharaoh — hardened their hearts. In- 
stead of praying then, we forget others and say, "Lord, search 
me." We get full of unselfish love. 

Satan says converting sinners by repentance is ignorance. 
Homes that are carried on by teaching them to repent of their 
sins and pray as David did, and the Lord heard his prayer and 
forgave him his sins, he calls ignorance. Paul did repentance 
three days with his blind eyes by praying, and repenting is 
what moved God to forgive him, and he received his eye- 
sight. He put him on that solid rock and God did not sent him 
out to preach to serve Mammon and God, but God told him, 
''Preach Jesus the Christ, the crucified one; tell them to repent 
and be converted that their sins be blotted out." No hell and 
damnation for the blood-washed that walk in the Spirit. No 
time to serve Mammon, as it says, ''Watch and pray." Search 
the Scriptures, and a Christian ought to be full of the Scrip- 
ture, which is a well of salvation and requires time. No time 
for anything that don't help some one to heaven. Pastime will 
all be taken up visiting the sick. Always get booked up to date 
and live up to date. We find time is too short for a Christian 
to have playthings like dancing and worldliness. Always lots 
more to do for Jesus. He keeps His own busy day and night to 
praise Him for the unspeakable gift which makes us a match for 
the good, as He is waiting for His people to live the essential of 
salvation. No time to waste. 



FIVE THINGS WORTH KNOWING 115 

Let Us Come to the Word of Right or Fear 

Mr. Spurgeon says: "I never heard of a stork that, when 
it met with a fir tree, demurred as to its right to build its nest 
there, and I never heard of a coney yet that questioned whether 
it had a permit to run into a rock." Oh, my, these creatures 
would soon perish if they were always doubting and fearing as 
to whether they had a right to use providential provisions. The 
stork says to himself, ''Ah, here is a fir tree." He consults 
with his mate, 'Will this do for the nest in which we may rear 
our young?" "Aye," says she, and they gather the material 
and arrange them. There is never any deliberation, "May we 
build here? " They bring their sticks and make their nests, and 
yet nobody ever said to the stork, "Whosoever buildeth on this 
fire tree shall never have his nest pulled down." No inspired 
word has every coney, "Whosoever turns into this rock cleft 
shall never be driven out of it." If it had been so it would 
make assurance. Yet here is Christ provided for sinners — just 
the sort of a Saviour sinners need, and the encouragement is 
added: "Him that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out." 
Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. Now, let 
us come to the word. John tells us in his Gospel what Christ did 
for us on earth. In the epistle He tells us what He is doing for 
us in heaven as our advocate. 



Five Things Worth Knowing 

In the third chapter of John's first epistle there are five 
things worth knowing. In the fifth verse we read the first: 
"And we know that he has manifested to take away our sins 
and in him is no sin." Not what I have done, but what He has 
done. Has He failed in His mission ? Is He not able to do what 
He came for? Did ever any heaven-sent man fail yet? And 
could God's own Son fail? He was manifested to take away 



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our sins. Again in the nineteenth verse, the second thing worth 
knowing: "And hereby we know that we are the truth, and if 
the truth, make us free in deed." If the Son, therefore, shall 
make you free ye shall be free indeed. John 8 :36. The third 
thing worth knowing is in the fourteenth verse. We know that 
we have passed from death unto life, because we love the 
brethren. The natural man does not like Godly people, nor 
does he care to be in their company. He that loveth not his 
brethren abideth in death. He has no spiritual life. The fourth 
thing worth knowing we find in verse twenty-four: "And he in 
Him, and] hereby we know that he abideth in us by the Spirit 
which he has given us." We can tell what kind of Spirit we 
have. If we possess the Spirit of Christ, a Christ-like Spirit, 
not the same, not the same degree, but the same in kind. If I 
am meek, gentle and forgiving; if I have a spirit filled with joy; 
if I am long suflfering and gentle like the Son of God, that is a 
test, and in that way we are to tell whether we have eternal life 
or not. The fifth thing worth knowing and the best of all is 
beloved. Now notice the word. It does not say when you 
come to die. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth 
not yet appear what we shall be. But we know that when He 
shall appear we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is 
(V. 2). Therefore let us strive to do our best and give our 
best. 



Be True to Jesus Christ 

Let me, first of all, dear readers, greet you as co-workers 
in a cause that God called me, which is very dear to my heart, 
and, as far as I got in those eleven years to found it, God gave 
me success, beautifully planned to go on, as I will refer to later. 
Souls were won most every week — three and four and as high 
as eight were at the altar at once. The Home was established 
for slum work, and souls write me today and say they wish 



VICTORY 117 

they could all be together and enjoy those Bible instructions and 
hear me bring the cheerful message of God and encourage them 
to stand and face the foe with victory. All join hands and 
hearts in the strength of God with a strange inspiration from 
the Holy One and give battle until the foe was vanquished. The 
weapons of this warfare are obtained from the armor of God, 
and victory is promised if the battle is waged in His name and 
for His sake. 

Let the power of sin assail, 
Heaven's grace can nevel fail. 
Victory! I am free! Jesus gives 
Me victory. He is all in all to me. 



Victory 



Triumphant heart! Eternal, glorious victory is as- 
sured and was gained. Glorious blessings from time to time. 
One day I said, "Matron, I don't know where and what denom- 
ination I belong." ''I guess to all, as I think you have the 
whole outfit." Some join the Meeting House. A girl who had 
been converted was asked, "How do you know? " "Because 1 
am changed." "How do you know you are changed? " "If I 
was not, this world was." 

The Holy Spirit teaches me to get filled with the love of 
God, to bring forth souls as the heat of an incubator hatches 
out chicks and brings them forth. So through Christ, whose 
love burns out all dross and puts convictions of a burning love 
which fills the space of our being with glory, so the demon has 
no room, nor can he stand to come near the brightness — Jesus, 
the morning star. 



118 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

For my grievous sins have all been washed away. 

Peace that passeth understanding fills my heart with joy and 
victory. 

As Jesus creates a living faith to take hold of horns at the 
altar, say: "Here I am, all for Thee and Christ Divine." Ac- 
cept the sacrifice and fill the soul with His hallowed blessing to 
overflowing. Praise God. 

Divine intelligence directs, 
Divine love protects; 
Divine mind, unfold to us each day 
All we should know, do and say. 

Sentence Pronounced — ''He Has Been Pardoned" 

Pay the price by coming to Jesus' feet and repent from 
the awful sinning, and Jesus gives the password: 'Thy sins are 
forgiven thee — go and sin no more." Live and work for the 
Judge that pardons you. If we believe there is for us no con- 
demnation, no judgment, a person really hears the word of 
Jesus and believes with the heart of God, who sent the Son to 
be the Saviour of the world and lays hold of and appropriates 
this great salvation. There is no fear of judgment. He will not 
be looking forward with dread to the great white throne, for we 
read in 1 John 4:17: ''Herein is our love made perfect that we 
may have boldness in the day of judgment." A ,man was 
on trial for his life. He had friends with influence and they 
succeeded in securing pardon from the king. He went into 
court with the pardon in his pocket. When the sentence was 
pronounced he pulled out the pardon, presented it and walked 
out a free man. He has been pardoned and so have we. Then 
let death come, we have naught to fear. All the grave diggers 
in the world cannot dig graves large enough and deep enough 
to hold eternal life. All the coffin-makers in the world cannot 



WHAT WILL THE CHURCH DO FOR US 119 

make coffins large enough and light enough to hold eternal 
life. Death had his hand on Christ once, but never again. 

Come and thy people bless 
And give Thy word success. 

To rule in every heart and speak pardon and peace to 
every soul that come penitent unto Christ. 



What WiU the Church Do for Us 

Look and live and there is eternal life for every poor sin- 
ner. Look at the cross on Calvary's brow. Jesus atoned for all 
penitent souls, bought with a price the precious blood by the Son 
of God. The blood of all sacrificed blood ever will be spilled 
for the lost, for the fulfillment of prophecy and for the sin of 
the world. If you are sick of your sins you can be saved this 
very hour. God has provided a remedy and it is offered to all 
without price or money. Only give up all self and pride and 
worldliness. You need not look at the church,the church is all 
right, but the church cannot save you. You look at the cruci- 
fied one — look to Calvary. Bear in mind, sinner, that Jesus 
died for all. You need not look to ministers; they are just 
God's chosen instruments to hold up the remedy — to hold up 
Christ. And so, my friends, take your eyes from men, take 
your eyes from the church; lift them up to Jesus, who became 
a remission for the sin of the world, and there will be life for 
you from this hour. Thank God we do not require an educa- 
tion to teach us how to look. That little girl, only four years 
old, who cannot read, can look, and when the father is com- 
ing the mother says, ''Little girl, look, look," and she just looks. 
And that is the way to be saved; it is to look at the lamb of 
God, who taketh away the sin of the world. Whosoever be- 
cometh sick of sin and repent, just take God at His word. Say, 



120 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

"Jesus is all the world to me," and the assurance will come and 
your Christian life will be a happy one and you will be sure of 
heaven if you live by the grace of God. 



Believe and be Healed or Die 

Hearing this friend goes away and returns with another 
and that one testifies to the same thing, I am still unbelieving. 
So he goes away and brings another, and another, and another, 
and they all testify to the same thing. They say they were as 
bad as myself; that they took the same medicine that has been 
offered to me, and that it has cured them. My friend then hands 
me the medicine. I dash it to the ground. I do not believe in 
its saving power; I die. The reason is, then, that I spurned the 
remedy. So if you perish it will not be because Adam fell — 
because you spurned the remedy offered to save you. You will 
choose darkness rather than light. How, then, shall we escape 
if we neglect so great salvation. There is no hope for you if 
you neglect the remedy. It does no good to look at the 
wound. If we had been in the Israelite camp and had been 
bitten by one of the fiery serpents, it would have done us no 
good to look at the wound. Looking at the wound will never 
save any one. What you must do is to look at the remedy. 
Look to Him who has power to save you from your sin. Behold, 
the camp of the Israelites. Look at the scene that is pictured 
to your eyes. Many are dying because they neglect the remedy 
that is offered. In that arid desert is many a short and tiny 
grave. Many a child has been bitten by the fiery serpent. 

Fathers and mothers are burying their children. Over 
yonder they are burying a mother — a loved mother is about to 
be laid in the earth; all the family weeping together around the 
loved form; you hear the mournful cries; you see the bitter 
tears. The father is being borne away to his last resting place; 



BELIEVE AND BE HEALED OR DIE 121 

there is wailing going up all over the camp; tears are pouring 
down for the thousands who have passed away; thousands more 
are dying, and the plague is raging from one end to another; 
it gradually will be renewed — soon, soon. I see mother bend- 
ing over the form of a beloved girl just coming into the bloom of 
life, just budding into girlhood. She is wiping away the sweat 
of death that is gathering upon her brow. The mother's heart 
strings are torn and bleeding. All at once she hears a noise in 
the camp; a great shout goes up; she goes to the door of the 
tent. God has instructed Moses to make a brazen serpent. 
There are shouts, ''Why, my good woman, have you not heard 
the good news that has come into the camp? " ''No," says the 
woman. "Good news — what is it? " "Why, God has provided 
a remedy." "Oh, tell me what is the remedy? " "Why, God 
has instructed Moses to make a brazen serpent and to put it on 
a pole in the middle of the camp, and He has declared that who- 
soever looks upon it shall live." The shouts of these people 
when they see the serpent lifted up ! 

The mother goes back and tells the girl the good news: 
"Dear, you need not die, my girl, my girl." Already stupified, 
she is so weak she puts her strong arms under her and lifts her 
up. "Look yonder — look right there under the hill." But she 
says, "I do not see anything — what is it, mother? " And she 
says, "Keep looking and you will see it." At last she catches 
sight of the glistening serpent, and lo, she is well ! And thus it 
is with many a young convert. Some men say, "Oh, we do not 
believe in sudden conversions." How long did it take to cure 
those who looked at the brazen serpent? It was just a look 
and they were well. God has told Moses that none of those 
who look down upon that serpent shall die. A boy was bitten 
of the fiery serpent and he looked and lived, and he told an- 
other, and he told another. I imagine the young man was intel- 
lectual and he says to the young convert, "You do not think I 



122 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

am going to believe anything like that? If the physicians in 
Israel cannot cure me, how do you think that an old brass ser- 
pent and pole is going to cure me? " "Why, sir, I was as bad as 
yourself and I was cured — that did it. I just looked, that is all." 
"Well, if I understood the philosophy of it I would look and 
get well." "Let your philosophy go — look and live." "But, 
sir, you ask me to do an unreasonable thing. If God had said, 
Take the brass and rub it into the wound,' there might be 
something in the brass that would cure the bite." He calls an- 
other young man in. "Just tell him how the Lord saved you," 
and others came, and the young man says, "It is a very strange 
thing. If the Lord had told Moses to go and get some herbs 
or roots and stew them and take the concoction as a medicine, 
there would be something." 

My boy, mother says I have the best of news in the world. 
Why, hundreds who were gone very far are all perfectly well 
Well — I should like to get well. It is a very painful thought 
to die here in the wilderness. I want to go into the promise 
land, but I do not understand the remedy. It does not appeal 
to my reason. God has provided a remedy. I cannot believe 
that I can get well in a moment, and the young man dies of his 
own unbelief. 

Bring all your sins to the crucified one, 
Jesus will wash them away . 
Come and obey. You will say, 
Jesus has saved me, praise Him today. 



A MESSAGE 



How Shall We Get Into His Kingdom ? 

Now, God tells in His word how we get into His kingdom. 
We are not to work our way in. But that salvation is worth 
working for. We admit all that. If there were rivers and 
mountains in the way it would be worth while to swim those 
rivers and climb those mountains. There is no doubt that sal- 
vation is worth all that effort, but we do not obtain it by our 
works. It is to him that worketh not, but believeth. Rom. 4 :5. 
We work because we are saved. We do not work to be saved — 
we work from the cross, but not towards it. It is written, 
''Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." Phil. 
2:12. Why, you must have your salvation before you can 
work it out. Suppose I say to my little girl, "I want you to 
spend that hundred dollars carefully." ''Well," she says, "let 
me have the hundred dollars and I will be careful how I spend 
it." I remember when I first left home and went to Boston, 
I had spent all my money and went to the post office three times 
a day. I knew there was one mail a day from home, but I 
thought by some possibility there might be a letter for me. At 
last I received a letter from my little sister, and oh, how glad I 
was to get it. She had heard that there were a great number of 
pickpockets in Boston and a large part of that letter was to 
urge me to be very careful not to let anybody pick my pocket. 
Now, I required something in my pocket before I could have it 
picked. So you must have salvation before you can work it 
out. 

When Christ cried out on Calvary "It is finished," He 
meant what He said. All that men have to do now is just to 
accept of the work of Jesus Christ. There is no hope for man 

123 



1 24 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

or woman so long as they are trying to work out their own 
salvation for themselves. I can imagine there are some people 
who will say as Nicodemus possibly did, 'This is a very mys- 
terious thing." I see the scowl on that Pharisee's brow as he 
says, "How can these things be? " It sounds very strange to his 
ear, "Born again. Born of the Spirit — how can these things 
be? " A great many people say, "You must reason it out," but 
if you do not reason it out, do not ask us to believe it. I can 
imagine a great many people saying that. When you ask me to 
reason it out, I tell you frankly I cannot do it. The wind bloweth 
where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not 
tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth. So is every one 
that is born of the Spirit. John 3 :8. I do not understand 
anything about the wind. You ask me to reason it out — I can- 
not; it may blow north here and a hundred miles away due 
south. I may go up a few hundred feet and find it blowing in 
an entirely opposite direction from what it is down here. You 
ask me to explain these currents of wind; but suppose that be- 
cause I cannot explain it to you and do not understand them I 
were to take my stand and assert there is no such thing as 
wind. I can imagine some little girl saying, "I know more 
about it than that man does; often have 1 heard the wind 
blow and felt it blowing against my face." And she might say, 
"Did not the wind blow my umbrella out of my hands the 
other day, and did I not see it blow a man's hat off in the street? 
Have I not seen it blow the trees in the forest and the growing 
corn in the country?" You might just as well tell me that 
there is no such thing as wind as tell me there is no such a 
thing as a man being born of the Spirit. I have felt the Spirit 
of God working in my heart just as really and as truly as I have 
felt the wind blowing in my face. 

I cannot reason it out. There are a great many things I 
cannot reason out but which I believe. I never could reason 



HOW SHALL WE GET INTO HIS KINGDOM 125 

out the creation. I can see the world, but I cannot tell how- 
God made it out of nothing. But almost every man will admit 
there was a creative power. 

There are a great many things that I cannot explain and 
reason out and yet that I believe. I heard a commercial trav- 
eler say ''that he had heard that the ministry and religion of 
Jesus Christ were matters of revelation and not of investiga- 
tion." When it pleased God to reveal His Son to me, says Paul, 
GaL 1:15-16, Acts 3:19. 

A party of young men made up their minds not to believe 
anything they could not reason out. An old man heard them 
and presently he said: "I heard you say you would not believe 
anything you could not reason out? " *Tes," they said, ''that 
is so." "Well," he said, "coming down on the train today I 
noticed some geese, some sheep, some swine and some cattle, 
all eating grass. Can you tell me by what process that same 
grass turned into hair, feathers, bristles and wool. Do you be- 
lieve it is a fact? " "Oh, yes," they said, "we cannot help be- 
lieving that, though we fail to understand it." "Well," said the 
old man, "I cannot help believing in Jesus Christ, and I cannot 
help in believing in the regeneration of man." When I see 
mankind, who have been reformed, have not some of the very 
worst men been regenerated, been picked up out of the pit and 
had their feet set upon the rock and a new song put in their 
mouths? Their tongues were cursing and blaspheming and 
now are occupied in praising God. Old things have passed 
away and all things have become new. They are not re- 
formed only, but regenerated — new men in Christ Jesus. There 
is no truth in the Bible that Satan would so much like to blot 
out as the words ye must be born again. God provideth a 
remedy for this bitter Israelite. Look and live and there is 
eternal life for every poor sinner. Look and you can be saved. 
My reader, this very hour God has provided a remedy and it is 



126 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

oflfered to all. Do not look at the pole, that is the church; you 
need not look at the church, the church is all right, but the 
church cannot save you. Look beyond the pole, look at the 
crucified one. Look to Calvary. Bear in mind, sinner, that 
Jesus died for all. You need not look at the ministers; they are 
just God's chosen instruments to hold up the remedy, to hold up 
Christ. What men want is the power to overcome temptation, 
the power to lead a right life. An unregenerated man would 
rather be in hell than in heaven. Take a man whose heart is 
full of corruption and wickedness and place him in heaven 
among the pure and holy and the redeemed, and he would not 
want to stay there. Certainly if we are to be happy in heaven 
we must begin to make a heaven here on earth. Heaven is a 
prepared place for a prepared people. If a gambler or a blas- 
phemer were taken out of the streets of New York and placed 
on the crystal pavement of heaven and under the shadow of 
the tree of life, he would say, **I do not want to stay here." 

In the fourteenth and fifteenth verses of this chapter we 
read: ''As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so 
must the son of man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in 
him should not perish, but have eternal life." Whosoever, 
mark that. Let me tell you who are unsaved what God has 
done for you. He has done everything that He could do toward 
your salvation. You need not wait for God to do anything 
more. In one place He asks the question. What more could 
He have done? Isa. 5:4. He sent His prophets and they 
killed them. Then He sent His beloved Son and they murdered 
Him. Now He has sent the Holy Spirit to convince us of sin 
and show how we are to be saved. 

And if by believing I get a new life and a new hope, a 
peace, a joy and a rest to my soul that I never had before; if I 
get self-control and find that I have a power to resist evil and 



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to do good, I have pretty good proof that I am on the right 
road to the city which hath foundations, whose builder and 
maker is God. And if things have taken place and are now 
taking place as recorded in God's word, I have good reason to 
conclude that what yet remains will be fulfilled. And yet peo- 
ple talk of doubting. There can be no true faith when there is 
fear. Faith is to take God at His word unconditionally. Per- 
fect love casteth out fear. Thank God. 



A Morphine Soul Rescued 

Mrs. Dr. Stoltz, a graduate of a medical college, was 
brought in by an official of the city to the Beulah Home in her 
59th year, ruined through dope down to skin and bone, a mere 
skeleton, and she was recruited and got converted and joined 
the Brethren Church. She remained with us a few years, and 
her health was restored and her mind and body developed as 
well as her soul. Praise God. She remained with us a few 
years; then she needed a more quiet home, and the Brethren 
finally took her over in their home, as that home is an old 
people's home, where she would be cared for for life. Thank 
God. The few years she was with us she was very active and 
helpful and very gracefully extended educational help, for after 
she became normal she was a lady of refinement, although she 
would soon have been in a dope grave. One soul is worth more 
than the whole world. She was one who came to seek and 
save that which was lost. I pray God that those who read this 
book may realize that hundreds of bright jewels, girls and 
women, escape from destruction of eternity through Beulah 
Rescue Home. I waited until I was sure the call came from 
God and then immediately went to work with ardor and cour- 
age. The Ministerial Association put a committee on me to 
stop my buying a Home so prominent — too great an under- 



128 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

taking. I answered, 'The Lord showed me this place and He 
is able to see it through." 

So He was, and people never realized the work that was 
accomplished in the eleven years, as seventy per cent were won 
and thirty per cent, did not keep faithful, which the evil one 
used to undermine the good work, and I did not mind that. If 
there were no contrariness or persecution, why, it would not be 
God's work. All of God's people are picked at and sometimes 
they devour each other out of jealousy. The good book tells 
us so. Sometimes a cover is used to cover another one's suc- 
cess or ignore it underneath. This is the work of the evil one, 
that does not but destroy and undermine the Lord's work. The 
Pharisees did it to Him. 

Mrs. Dr. Stoltz intelligence cannot be expressed for her 
way of doing good after the conversion of the naturally de- 
praved and condemned creatures. Self-righteousness and pride 
are the most absurd and monstrous of all our sins. The deepest 
repentance and profoundest humility becomes us; to neglect 
them is to stumble at the very threshold of true religion; and 
to ridicule them is to pour contempt upon reason, revelation 
and the first operations of Divine grace on a sinner's heart. 
Spiritual health we enjoy through the powerful help of our 
Heavenly Physician, the second Adam, but saying, "Peace, 
peace." 

When there is no peace, they imitate the Pharisee of old, 
who, for fear of displeasing the rich and offending the great, 
preached smooth things and prophesied deceit, and will meet 
with dreadful punishment. ''Give sinners warning from nie," 
says the Lord to every minister. 

I say to the wicked, the unconverted, thou shalt surely 
die, and thou giveth him not warning. He shall die in his 
iniquity, in his uncovered state, but his blood will I require at 



ON THE STREET! ON THE STREET! 129 

thy hand. See Matt. 18:3, Ezek. 3:18 and 13:10. When such 
an immense body as this is to be restored to the ima^e of the 
infinitely holy glorious and blessed God, common sense dictates 
that the amazing task can be performed by no other than the 
original. Great searcher of hearts, humbly acknowledge thai 
all the gracious rewardableness of the best works of faith is 
derived from His precious blood and original merit. Hence it 
appears that notwithstanding the Saviour is God over all blessed 
forever. All things were made by Him. He upholds all things 
by the word of His power and every believer may adore and 
say with the apostle when the light of faith shone into his be- 
nighted soul, my Lord and my God. For the Lord knoweth the 
way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish. 

That God brought her back to herself in her age was a 
miracle, and I am, as the Founder, to see that the work as God 
used me is brought back, and ask God to sent me people to 
stand by me to do so. 



On the Street! On the Street! 

To and fro with weary feet, 
Aching heart and aching head, 
Homeless, lacking daily bread. 
Lost of friends and joy and name, 
Sold to sorrow, sin and shame; 
Wet with rain and chilled by storm, 
Ruined, wretched love forlorn. 
Weak and wan with weary feet, 
Still I wander on the street. 



130 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

On the street — on the street, 
Still I walk with weary feet; 
Lonely 'mid the city's din, 
Sunk in grief and woe and sin; 
Far from peace and far from home, 
No one caring where 1 roam; 
No kind hand stretched forth to save. 
No bright hope beyond the grave. 
Feeble, faint with weary feet. 
Still I wander on the street. 

There were those eleven years of Beulah Anchorage with 
the door of Blessing to welcome them in day and night. 
Beware who takes part to change the rescue work. 

No limit to age. The unfortunate must be cared for. 
There is no other place in this city to rescue and care for them. 



AU's Well 

There are false prophets out in the streets, and sick, weary 
and homeless hundreds of poor, sinful girls. 

The bell tolls the solemn hour of midnight and still these 
outcasts are aimlessly plodding their way with no hope for the 
future and no expectations of shelter, except by adding to the 
burden of their sin. Who can tell the story of their hearts, the 
seemingly irresistible temptations that surround them before 
they fell, or the many circumstances that led to the first false 
step. Here was the Beulah Anchorage which had an open door 
of blessing, without red tape or silver or gold to take Christ in 
their heart and life. Weary and tired of sinning, her thoughts 
turn to the happy days of childhood, from which she drifted 
away into sin and sorrow. One can't imagine the goodness of 
God. The Founder of Beulah Anchorage, who sympathized 



A PRODIGAL GIRL 131 

with her in all her sorrows, in quiet, unselfish ways sought to 
make their lives one of cloudless happiness. If tear-dimmed 
eyes attest the sincerity of such reflections, say it to the grief- 
stricken souL If you are what the world calls an abandoned 
woman, we will, in the name of our blessed Saviour, speak 
words of encouragement. The Beulah Anchorage was ready 
to say, *'We will tell you that through His Divine grace, every 
creature whosoever sinful may become pure as the the spotless 
snow." Let us oflfer to you the sweet consolation of His love, 
more fragrant than jasmine and as boundless as eternity. 



A Prodigal Girl 

A beautiful girl strayed from home and was brought in by 
an officer from City Hall. She gave her sad wanderings away 
from her grandmother and was stranded through a man of no 
respect for himself and fortunately landed at Beulah Anchorage. 
She was from New York and 19 years of age. She became 
contrary and I nicely took her in the grated room, and it took 
three days until she was willing to yield to the rules, but then 
she got there with all her heart and took me around the neck 
and told me of all her contrariness at home; that they were too 
easy with her, and she thanked me to be firm and kind and 
cried to break my heart. Her unkindness to her dear grandma 
preyed upon her mind and she promised me to be willing to do 
anything if I would help her to get converted. She came to the 
service and I gave the message with a broken heart. All were 
in tears that were there and the lecture room was well filled 
with inmates. She repented and asked the Lord to forgive her, 
and He answered her contrite, penitent heart. She was good 
then. We were all sorry to see her go. No one could help but 
see when Jesus forgave her sin — she just shone from the glory 
of God. She shook hands with all and said, ''Now I will go 



132 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

home and tell grandmother all about how I had to be brought 
to see and feel my sins." Jesus alone will help. 

When I was a little child, how well I recollect grieving my 
mother with my folly and neglect. My childhood griefs and 
trials she would gladly share. She had died and I wandered 
far away in sin, while my grandmother was so kind to me. 
I knew her loving heart was breaking in mourning for me. I 
became a prodigal and left the old sweet home. When I kneel 
in worship to Thee King of Kings, who has saved me by His 
grace and with joy behold His face, thanks to God forever. 
For the prodigal boy an open door — what of the girl? 

There was a time in Beulah Home 

When in the book of heaven 

An account was standing. 

My name was at the top. 

When I was brought to a test 

And many things below. 

But I went to the keeper 

To have my sins forgiven, 

And settled it, and cannot 

Find a thing. I praise Him for His love 

To clear all the records away. 

For He settled down on my knees 

For me, for me. Thank God. 



Dear Readers 

The first and only rescue mission for girls and women in 
the City of Reading, Pa., was organized in 1907. Founded by 
Mrs. M. L. Landis, who came from Lehigh County to Reading 
twenty-three years ago and did nine years private evangelistic 
prison work and then obeyed the call to get a rescue mission for 
fallen, unfortunate, homeless girls and women. 



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My dear readers of this book, I remember one instance out 
of many at the Beulah Anchorage Rescue Home: One evening, 
as we Board of Ladies were sitting in the lecture room, the 
door bell rang. I answered. There was a policeman with a 
nice, tall, stout woman and a fat baby in her arms, under the 
influence of drink, and the officer asked me if we had room to 
take care of this woman. I answered, 'Tes, all right." Her 
waist was hanging open and she did not realize half of what 
she was saying, so hard was she under the influence of drink. I 
asked her to follow the assistant up the stairs, ''she will put you 
in a nice bed." Near the bath room in her condition, I told her, 
''Now let the assistant help you to bed and take care of the 
baby." She answered, "Oh, yes'm." She turned about in a 
sort of bewildered way and said, "I am tired — where am I?" 
"You go to rest now and tomorrow you will know where you 
are all right." She soon became quiet and dosed in a stupor and 
rested until morning, and the smell of drink doped the baby, 
which also rested until morning. The bell rang to rise for 
breakfast, and she came to the dining room and asked me to 
go. I said, "No, you take some breakfast." After breakfast 
she asked again to go. "No, we have worship." Then she 
asked to go to her man. Then I asked her, "To your hus- 
band? " "No, the man I live with." "Does this nice baby be- 
long to him and not married, my dear? " "Yes, he promised to 
marry me, but drink made so much trouble." "Well, you are 
now in a rescue home to do you good." "Yes, but I want 
him; he promised to marry me, but it did not happen." "Too 
much drink, is that it?" "Yes, we have so much trouble 
through it." "Well, see here, my dear, you stay until you take 
Christ in your life and heart; then you won't care for drink; 
and your man cannot see you this time, as I will tell him to get 
rid of drink, go to some church instead of a saloon and take 
Jesus in his heart and life. Then you come, and if I under- 



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stand you mean to be good and right with God, bring your 
license along to marry her; then you get her, as she is willing 
to let sin alone and repent and accept Jesus; then you can see 
her." And he commenced to cry like a child. 1 prayed with 
him and told him to kindly go." **No, how can 1 ? " **Oh, yes, 
you can. Oh, my dear one, be sure you obey my advice and 
then come." And she got converted. He said, ''I'll try to get 
all right." When he came again I got her to ask him to unite 
in the proper way, and in less than three months he came 
with the license and took her and the baby and got married. 
The report came in that they live sober and happy. Oh, how 
I see God in this work 1 love so, where Jesus converts the sin- 
ners, and this woman says: 

Since Christ my soul from sin set free 
This world has been a heaven to me; 
And 'mid earth's sorrows and its woes 
Tis heaven my Jesus here to know. 

What matters where on earth we dwell, 

On mountain top or in the dell? 

In cottage or a mansion fair, , 

Where Jesus is, 'tis heaven there. 

Thank God. 



An Unfortunate Girl Rescued 

A girl. May, with two illegitimate children, was in the 
Home eighteen months and was converted. It was a pitful case. 
She had two little ones and had no place to go, so, forsaken, she 
came to Beulah Anchorage, and, in great worriment, asked if 
we would be so kind and take her in with a child of three years 
and two months. Two children were very hard to bear up 
with and no one to care for them. But she was a faithful 



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worker and soon got converted. It cost her many tears to get 
down to confession, but she bowed down at the feet of Jesus, 
and Jesus our Saviour forgave her. She received a great bless- 
ing to pay the price, and she enjoyed all the meetings, weekdays 
and Sundays. She was very useful and in eighteen months she 
left to serve out. She was faithful and soon God gave her a 
husband; after her marriage she lived on a farm. She writes 
very spiritual letters and gets along, with hard work, on a farm 
of 80 acres. She says: "I keep on serving my Lord and read 
the Bible and pray." God bless her. After she was married 
God took the baby to Himself, and she asked me to let her have 
the first one, which some one had kept, and the dear people 
gave her her wish, as her heart was so broken without a child. 
But God gave her a child three years after she was married. 
She writes most interesting letters. Praise God for her faith- 
fulness. They pray for the Home daily. She says in her letters 
Jesus is all the world to her. She often says in her letters, 
*'Good-bye till we meet again." 



An Unfortunate Girl Kept True, Out of Many 

Laura, homeless, came in and asked for a home to bear 
her trouble. She was unfortunate and the Matron, Mrs. Stein- 
metz, gave her a good training. Her child was adopted from 
the hospital. She came back and got converted and stayed 
until strong enough to work and then she left to make her own 
way. She often called by phone and reported to us all right. 
She was good and faithful, and at last she came and told me she 
was married. She got along nicely and has a few children now. 
She boarded with her aunt until she settled in life. I was so 
proud of her, and she was so thankful that we took her in until 
she got along. How Jesus loves the dear souls when they come 
home and repent. When rescue is born in them they love the 



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Home and the work and were glad to help along while there. 
It was a delight to serve the Lord, testify, sing and pray. They 
want to understand the Bible — that was one of our main teach- 
ings, to get interested in the Bible; that tells the way to heaven 
and how to get ready and how to live by faith and joy in the 
soul; get established on the way, as Jesus is the door, the way, 
the truth and everlasting life, and when I gave them to read 
about Ruth, to tell me next time the life of Ruth and Samuel. 
Oh, how they love to do so. Jesus manifested Himself the 
evenings of Mission Band. First, motion exercise; there was no 
time for worldliness; they were changed; they were changed, 
they enjoyed the spiritual atmosphere, select reading, singing, 
many cheering, comforting hymns and praises of God went up 
to heaven through prayers. Jesus is a satisfying portion to all 
His children. Thank His dear name. *'My grace is sufficient 
for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness." 
II Cor. 2:9. 

I have been to Jesus for the cleansing power 
And washed in the blood of the Lamb. 
I am fully trusting in His grace 
And walking daily near my Saviour, 
And be washed in the blood of the Lamb, 
Standing on the promise of my Jesus. 



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How to Pray 

There was a ship on a stormy sea which became so raging 
that the captain became afraid and asked his passengers to pray. 
All answered, "Can't pray." 1 presume all know how to play 
cards and be careless and worldly. All fell down and hum- 
bled themselves, weeping in great fear. One said, "I try to 
pra}^" and said, "Zan Feli, amen." The storm ceased because 
he came with a penitent heart and did the best he knew. But 
that would not have been the case with Beulah Anchorage in- 
mates — girls and women. They are taught, each one, to pray, 
and after conversion know how to witness for God. After 
Bible reading each took part in singing and each prayed in wor- 
ship, which was done on their bended knees. I met a doctor 
of California and he said, ''Rescue work was born in you." It 
must be, as I would not care to run the Beulah Anchorage any 
other way but get them all there to accept Christ in their heart 
and life, to become a Christian and live for Him who gave His 
life — the Friend of all friends. 



A Sketch of Christ's Manifestation 

This book speaks whose music is yielded by lips which 
were filled with the praise of their Deliverer and whose me- 
morial tablets are not those which tell of senators, knights or 
orators who have died, but servants of Satan who have sud- 
denly been changed into true soldiers of the cross, their lives 
telling of the marvels of redeeming grace. A blessed spot, 
always new inspiration and blessing to the souls and new faith 
in the Gospel. These pages tell marvels of love Divine and 
Human. Only the life of God in Christ Jesus can win such tri- 
umps in these eleven years of labor for souls to the glory of 
God. 



A SKETCH OF CHRIST^S MANIFESTATION 139 

I wish I could persuade Godly women who read this book 
to help this rescue work along, not to reform only, but trans- 
form, born of the Spirit. St. John 3:3. It is the connecting 
link between the last godless world and the church of Christ. 
There are hundreds of splendid girls and women today in the 
red light places of Reading, Pa., along who are waiting for 
some friendly hand and heart to help them up and turn the 
wrong and wicked element into the sunshine of Christ, who 
willingly makes them soul winners for God, who can take the 
base things of the world and the things are not to bring to 
naught the things that are. 

The little spirit passes under the blood of Jesus and it sings 
when there, "Washed in the blood of Jesus." You say, "If 
babe can get in that way, why cannot we? " Light is the meas- 
ure of our accountability and God says, "Walk in the light." 
God says. Acts 3:19: "Repent ye, therefore, and be converted 
that your sins be blotted out." Then God says: "Walk in the 
light, follow me." Jesus says: "Oh, there is deliverance from 
sin which has never gone so deep but that the blood of Jesus 
Christ can go deeper." Where sin abounds grace did much 
more abound. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction, who 
crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies? He 
has not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according 
to our iniquities. 

Man of sorrows, what a name? 
Bearing shame and scoffing. 
Lifted up was He to die, 
Ruined sinners to reclaim. 
In my place condemned He stood. 
Hallelujah! What a Saviour! 



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Word "Know" Occurs Forty Times 

Now God has given us lights or landmarks to tell us 
whether we are His children or not, and what we need to do is 
to examine the tokens He has given us. In His Gospel there are 
only two chapters in which the word "believe" does not occur. 
With these two exceptions, every chapter in John is ''Believe! 
Believe! Believe!" He tells us so. 20.31. ''But these are 
written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son 
of God; and, believing, ye might have life through His name." 
That is the purpose for which He wrote the Gospel. 

Turn to I John 5 :1 3. He there tells us why He wrote this 
epistle: "These things have I written unto you that believe on 
the name of the Son of God." Notice to whom He writes it: 
"You that believe on the name of the Son of God." There are 
only five short chapters in this first epistle of John and the word 
"know" occurs over forty times. It is "Know! Know! Know!" 
The key to it is "know," and all through the epistle there rings 
out the refrain that we might know that we have eternal life. 
Christ says, "Repent and I forgive and I cast it in the sea of 
forgetfulness" Therefore He tells us, "Let us forget those things 
which are behind and reach forth unto those which are before 
and press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of 
God in Christ Jesus. If we confess our sins He is faithful and 
just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteous- 
ness. I John 1 :9. And we love the brethren to encourage 
each other in the true work of real salvation. 

Before closing let me say that I trust God will restore 
some backslider reading these pages, who may in the future 
become a useful member of society and a bright ornament of 
the church. We should never have had the 3 2d Psalm if 
David had not been restored: "Blessed is he whose transgres- 
sion is forgiven, whose sin is covered," or that beautiful 51 si 



THE ENEMY PLAN TO WORK 141 

Psalm, which was written by the restored backslider. Nor 
should we have had that wonderful sermon on the day of Pen- 
tecost, when three thousand were converted, preached by an- 
other restored backslider. May God restore other backsliders 
and make them a thousand times more useful for the glory than 
they ever were before. 



The Enemy Plans to Work 

Many souls, my dear reader, would get saved were they 
encouraged rather than hindered and discouraged. Priests and 
ministers often prejudice those of their congregations against 
meetings where experimental religion is taught and privileged, 
and especially do they object to their seeking the same. In like 
manner do parents often hinder their children and children 
their parents; husbands their wives and wives their husbands. 
Relatives and neighbors often hinder each other; they stay 
away and believe every slanderous report, but never go to 
see and hear for themselves. They are guilty of robbing a 
soul of the highest gift God ever gave them — the right to 
choose a plea of rescue. Lord, avenge me of mine adversary, 
my evil heart of unbelief. How earnest, how unwearied in her 
application to her prophet for heavenly light and wisdom. 
The incessant prayer was then her's and so was the gracious 
answer which the Lord returned to her. She then received her 
Spiritual sight, and oh, what saw she then? The sacred book 
unsealed, her sins be blotted out as a cloud they disapepared 
and as a cloud the glory of God shining in the face, and Jesus 
Christ and the kingdom of heaven opened to all believers. 
Then, and not until then, she could say from the heart. 

This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance that 
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. I Tim. 1 :l5. 
Like me, she left to go to her people to make her own way. 



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She wrote a few times that she was getting along and that I 
shall pray for her. May she ever be faithful to Jesus her Lord, 
the loving, drawing power that keeps her in all the tempta- 
tations and the evil put in her way. 

Now, if you have wandered, remember that you left Him 
and not He you. You have to get out of the backslider's pit just 
in the same way you got in. And if you take the same road as 
when you left the Master, you will find Him just where you are. 
If we were to treat Christ as any earthly friend, we should never 
leave Him. 

I tell you, if you get into the closet and shut out the world 
and hold communion with the Master, you cannot leave Him. 
The language of your heart will be, "To whom shall we go but 
unto Thee ? Thou hast the words of eternal life." If you made 
a step back, come back today, just as you are. Make up your 
mind that you will not rest until God has restored unto you the 
joy of His salvation. 



Repentance and Restitution 

God comxnandeth all men everywhere to repent. Acts 17:30 

Repentance is one of the fundamental doctrines of the 
Bible. Yet I believe it is one of those truths that many people 
little understand at the present day. There are more people 
today in the mist and darkness about repentance, regeneration, 
the atonement and fundamental truths than perhaps on any 
other doctrines. 

A woman is not prepared to believe or to receive the 
Gospel unless she is ready to repent of her sins and turn from 
them. John the Baptist met Christ. He had one text: ''Repent 
ye, for the kingdom is at hand." Matt. 3:2. When Christ 
came He took up the same wilderness cry, "Repent, for the 



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kingdom is at hand." Math. 6:12. After He had been glori- 
fied, and when the Holy Ghost came down, we find Peter, on 
the day of Pentecost, raising the same cry, ''Repent." It was 
this preaching — repent and believe the Gospel — that wrought 
such marvelous results then. Acts 2:38-47. When Paul went 
to Athens he uttered the same cry. Now, God commandeth all 
men everywhere to repent. Acts 17:30. Repentance is not 
fear. You have heard of men at sea during a terrible storm. 
Perhaps they have been very profane men, but when the danger 
came they suddenly grew quiet and began to cry to God for 
mercy. Yet you would not say they repented. When the storm 
had passed away they went on swearing the same as before. 
You might think that the King of Egypt repented when God 
sent the terrible plagues upon him and his land. But it was 
not repentance at all. The moment God's hand was removed 
Pharaoh's heart was harder than ever. He did not return from 
a single sin. He was the same man. So there was no true re- 
pentance there. 

After death comes into a family it looks as if the event 
would be sanctified to the conversion of all who are in the 
house. Yet in six months time all may be forgotten. Then, 
again, repentance is not feeling. Repentance is not fasting and 
afflicting the body. Judas had terrible remorse — enough to 
make him go and hang himself, but that was not repentance. I 
believe if he had gone to his Lord, fallen on his face and con- 
fessed his sin he would have been forgiven. Repentance is not 
breaking some one sin. Well, then, you will ask, what is re- 
pentance? A young man, nineteen years old, was reading law 
with a Christian lawyer. One afternoon, when he was away 
from home, his good wife said to me, "I want you to go to 
class meeting with me tonight and become a Christian, so that 
you can conduct family worship while my husband is away." 
"Well, I'll do it," I said, without a thought. I went with her 



144 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

to the class meeting, as I often did before. About a dozen per- 
sons were present. The leader had spoken to all in the room 
but myself and two others. He was speaking to the person 
next to me when the thought occurred to me, he will ask me 
if I have anything to say. I said to myself, I have decided to be 
a Christian some time, why not begin now? In less than a 
minute's time he came to me. ''Brother Charles, have you 
anything to say.?" I replied, with perfect coolness, "Yes, sir. 
Yes, sir, I have just decided within the last thirty seconds that 
I will begin a Christian life and would like to have you pray for 
me." My coolness staggered him. 1 think he almost doubted 
my sincerity. He said very little, but passed on and spoke to 
the other two. After a few general remarks he turned to me 
and said, ''Brother Charles, will you close the meeting with 
prayer? " He knew I had never prayed in public. Up to this 
moment I had no feeling. It was purely a business transaction. 
My first thought was: I cannot pray and I will ask him to excuse 
me. My second was: I have said I will begin a Christian life and 
this is a part of it. So I said, "Let us pray." And somewhere, 
between the time I started to kneel and the time my knees struck 
the floor, the Lord converted my soul. The first words I said 
were: "Glory to God." What I said after that I do not know 
and it does not matter, for my soul was too full to say much 
but glory. From that hour the devil has never dared to chal- 
lenge my conversion. To Christ be all the praise. Christ said 
He "came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." 
Are you a sinner? Then the call to repent is addressed to 
you. Take your place in the dust at the Saviour's feet and 
acknowledge your guilt. Say, like the publican of old, "God be 
merciful to me a sinner." See how quickly He will pardon and 
bless you. Bear in mind that now is the only day of mercy you 
will ever have. God wants to forgive you. He is seeking to 
bring you to Himself. But I think the Bible teaches clearly that 
there is no repentance after this life. There are some who tell 



ADDRESS OF FAITH 145 

you of the possibility of repentance in the grave, but I do not 
find that in Scripture. I have looked my Bible over very care- 
fully and I cannot find that a man will have another opportunity 
of being saved. Why should he ask for any more time ? You 
have time enough to repent now. You can turn from your sins 
this moment if you will. God says: ''I have no pleasure in the 
death of him that dieth; wherefore turn and live ye." Ezek. 
18:32. Christ said He ''came not to call the righteous, but 
sinners to repentance." Are you a sinner? Then the call is 
addressed to you. Take your place in the dust at the Saviour's 
feet and acknowledge your guilt. Paul says all have sinned 
and come short of the glory of God. 



Address of Faith 

Wherefore dost thou doubt, O thou of little faith. Is any- 
thing too hard for the Lord? Are not all things possible with 
God ? Can the Almighty, who became incarnate to die as man 
in thy place, want either ability or willingness to help thee, be 
thy case ever so deplorable and desperate? Thinkest thou they 
do not belong to thee? Dost thou suppose that Jesus, who is 
all purity and holiness, must turn away with abhorence from 
such a guilty, political and abominable creature as thou art? 
Who is the Light of the World and the Prince of Life, and who, 
with a word or a touch, raised the dead, whether they were yet 
warm in a bed, or cold in a coffin, or already petrified in a 
granite? A touch, a breath from Thee will break the bars of 
iron, burst the gates of brass and make the everlasting doors 
lift up their heads that the King of Glory may come in. Who 
is the King of Glory? Why, Jesus. 



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No Work Without the Assurance of Salvation 

None will have time or heart to work for God who are 
not assured as to their own salvation. They have as much as 
they can attend to and bring themselves burdened with doubts. 
They cannot help others to carry their burdens. There is no 
rest, joy or peace, no liberty, no power, where doubts and un- 
certainty exist. Now, it seems as if there are three wiles of 
Satan against which we ought to be on our guard. In the first 
place he moves all his kingdom to keep us away from Christ; 
then he devotes himself to get us into doubting, but if we have, 
in spite of him, a clear title and witness that we are sons of God, 
he will do all he can to blacken our characters. Believe not our 
testimony, for it makes the devil mad. He is jealous of God 
and of success for God's cause. Some seem to think that it is 
presumption not to have doubts, but doubts are very dis- 
honoring to God. If any one was to say that they had known 
a person for thirty years and yet doubted him, it would not be 
very creditable; and when we have known God for ten, twenty 
or thirty years, does it not reflect on His veracity to doubt Him? 
Could Paul and the early Christians and martyrs have gone 
through what they did if they had been led with doubts and 
had not known whether they were going to heaven or to perdi- 
tion after they had been burned at the stake? They must have 
had assurance: ''I know that my Redeemer liveth; though He 
slay me, yet will I trust Him." Job 19:25. 



Assurance of Salvation 

"These things have I written unto you that ye may know 
that ye have eternal life." I John 5 :13. 

There art two classes who ought not to have assurance: 

First — Those who are in the church but who are not con- 
verted, having never been born of the Spirit. Second — Those 



ASSURANCE OF SALAVATION 147 

who are not willing to do God's will and ready to take the place 
that God has mapped out for them, but want to fill some other 
place. Some one asks, ''Have all God's people assurance?" 
''No, 1 think a good many of God's dear people have no assur- 
ance." But it is the privilege of every child of God to have 
beyond doubt a knowledge of his own salvation. No man is fit 
for God's service who is filled with doubts. If a man is not sure 
of his own salvation, how can he help any one else into the 
kingdom of God? If I seem in danger of drowning and do not 
know whether I shall ever reach the shore, I cannot assist an- 
other. I must first get on solid rock myself and then I can lend 
my brother a helping hand. If, being myself blind, I were to 
tell another blind man how to get sight, he might reply, "First 
get healed yourself and then you can tell me." I recently met 
a young man who was a Christian, but he had not attained to 
victory over sin. He was in terrible darkness. Such a one is 
not fit to work for God, because he has besetting sins and he 
has not the victory over his sins. Isaiah tells us that He was 
wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniqui- 
ties, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His 
stripes we are healed. Rom. 4:25 we read: "He was delivered 
for our offences and was raised again for our justification." 
Let us believe and get the benefit of His finished work. 

Jesus said: "I am the resurrection and the life; whosoever 
believeth in me shall never die." John 9:25-26. "I am he 
that liveth. Behold I am alive for evermore." Rev. 1:18. 
Death cannot touch Him again. The essential is to see that we 
have the right of Christ. So, dear friends, it is taking God at 
His word that is the means of our salvation. Christ is the bread 
of heaven. As the body feeds on natural food, so the soul must 
feed on Christ. If there are any persons in the world to whom 
the word ought to be very precious, it is those who are asking 
how to be saved. A man said, "I have no strength." Let him 



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turn to Romans 5:6: *Tor when we were yet without strength 
Christ died for the ungodly, and says I am the light of the 
world." One says, "I do not think a man can be saved all at 
once," and I drew his attention to Romans 6:23: 'The wages 
of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus 
Christ our Lord." How long does it take to accept a gift; there 
be a moment when you have it not and another when you have 
it; a moment when it is another's and the next when it is yours. 
It does not take six months to get eternal life. As soon as all 
on the altar surrender all and are fully willing to take up the 
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Founder Elnjoys Rescue Work 

One day a friend gave me a talk on contrariness and called 
a lot of good deeds lies, and when done she thought she had 
done wonderfully, but she did not understand. She robbed her 
own blessings and the Lord gave me of His richness in abund- 
ance and I prayed for all that. God convict them to see their 
privilege to win souls, not reform only, but be transformed by 
the renewing of the Holy Spirit. I was in the soul-saving work, 
and the Holy Spirit has directed, since I stepped out, girls and 
women, former inmates, to come and see me and ask my for- 
giveness for their contrariness while there. They felt so sorry 
that I was not there any more. I had to give up. "If a man 
keep my saying he shall never see death." Whenever I ask 
them which is the more satisfactory — to be a Christian or to be 
worldly, they answer that there is more blessing in the service 
than to be worldly and sit in the park and picture shows on a 
Sunday; more enjoyable to faithful mission work for another 
than to enjoy a Jim. Dear homeless girl, to have the chance 
to enjoy mission work for Jesus better than the folly of this 
world, which don't count. Only a record of wasted time. The 
summer is past and are not prepared to die; no fruit of right- 
eousness; not one girl brought over to Jesus. Now, raise your 
hands — which is the right and best to enjoy: Win souls for 
Jesus or worldly life, or sacred life? Commune with Christ. 
Our precious Christ and Saviour gave His life for our sins. All 
cheerfully raised their hands and say, ''A Christian's mission 
life." Prov. 3:13-14. 

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Trust and Obey 

The evil one tries to deceive dear souls and lure them into 
the wrong path. The Founder persuaded them to take Christ 
in their heart and life and taught them to read and search the 
Bible as their only guide. Drop all other books if they do not 
correspond with the Bible. We also taught them to pray 
openly, as many dear ones said they pray by themselves. But 
that we could not understand. They were asked when they 
came in to thank God for their food at the table. Each one 
prayed in worship on their knees, and when a change of heart 
took place then the Holy Spirit taught them to pray with free- 
dom's holy light to protect us by His power and might. Great 
God our King, until light appears for a deeper state of grace. 
The peace of God will sanctify you and reveal the Bible more 
and deeper with Spiritual light to partake of the sacredness of 
everlasting life, set apart for as a worker in Christ's vineyard, 
to spread the Gospel light in its beauty of holiness. Press on the 
shining road with double steps to land beyond the river in the 
haven of rest. 

If one is in the soul-saving business you will not be of 
such that believe in serving both Mammon and God until it is 
too late and drop beyond redemption. Serving both is deceiv- 
ing. Paul says, 'Today is the day of salvation." No promise 
for tomorrow. Remember, we have to be up and doing, as the 
night Cometh, when no man shall work. It is a privilege to get 
right and to live right. 

Praise God from whom all blessings flow. 



ADDRESS— "PARDONING LOVE" l5l 

Address— "Pardoning Love" 

Among those countless monuments of Divine mercy, those 
illustrious trophies of free grace, see David, who, after having 
been admitted to close communion with God, plunged for ten 
months in the horrible guilt of adultery, treachery, hypocrisy 
and murder. See Paul, once so fierce an enemy of the truth, 
so fiery a blasphemer of Jesus, so raging a persecutor of the 
saints that his very breath was threatenings and slaughter 
against them. See Peter, who, after a great profession of 
faithfulness and upon an apparently slight temptation, denied 
three times his Master, his Saviour and his God in His very 
presence. Peter, guilty of lying, cursing and perjury, immedi- 
ately after he had been apprised of the imminent temptation and 
armed against it, both by receiving the holy sacrament at our 
Lord's own hand and being admitted to see His wonderful 
agony and glorious miracles. These and thousands more agree 
to tell thee. For this cause we obtain mercy, that in us first 
Jesus Christ might show forth all long suffering, for a pattern 
to them which should hereafter believe in Him to life everlast- 
ing. Condemn not them, poor dejected sinners; they have the 
Saviour's boundless mercy within the narrow limits of the un- 
believing thoughts. 

Get Scripture views of His pardoning love and true dis- 
coveries of His redeeming power. To guess aright at the pro- 
digious extent of His mercy, lift up the dim eyes of thy strug- 
gling faith and behold a great multitude which no man can 
number standing before the throne with their robes washed and 
made white in the blood of the Lamb. If all these witnesses do 
not silence thy doubts and encourage thy hopes, Jesus Himself, 
the faithful and true witness, will yet plea the cause of His 
dying love against thy unbelieving fears. Thy gracious advo- 
cate with God will yet be God's condescending advocate with 
thee. Gracious Saviour, make Thine own word Spiritual life 



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to the soul Thou hast formed by Thy breath and purchased with 
Thy blood. 

Glory to God in the Highest 

I thought when my load of sin He pardoned and rolled away, 

It was the best day of my life. I could never rejoice 

More than when He rolled all my burdens away. 

I say in my heart I love him better than silver or gold; 

I say in my heart, as I bow, I never loved 

Jesus as I love Him now, for I have victory. 



Souls Rescued 

A dear woman came to Beulah Anchorage, the door of 
blessing, with five children, to escape her drunken husband, and 
we did all we could for her. She and the oldest girl, 1 7 years 
of age, a fine, good girl, both got converted. The husband 
came to the Home and tried to scare us and insisted that he 
must have his wife and all the children, but I told him that he 
must get right with God; that He can take that appetite away, 
and go and join some church and bring witness that he is living 
a sober Christian life. He finally cooled down, but did not re- 
port leading a better life. The woman, with her children, ven- 
tured out after several months, rented a few rooms and he left 
her alone, as I told him he must unless he became a Christian. 
The oldest girl and boy went to work and got along nicely. I 
made him believe she got a room and he must let her alone or 
I would attend to him, and he did. 

Many more could I refer to, but I have mentioned enough 
throughout this book to give all who may read an idea of the 
work that was done up to the time I stepped out, Aug. 1, 1918, 
and no one at the head to become a millionaire. No, the means 
all go for the expenses and maintenance of the work, outside 
of the building fund. A few got wages — the Matron and as- 



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sistants — and some wages they donated all the time so the good 
work might be carried on with the help of God. I had such a 
hard time to get those buildings and additions repaired and up 
to date. I battled all the time to pay, besides the maintenance 
carried on with the help of the kind of contributors. It was no 
money scheme, no poor house nor business concern. Inmates 
came, and left as soon as they had a way to get along outside 
the staflf, the chartered members, which the Chamber of Com- 
merce allowed, as they gave their last life work free. All the 
desire was to get these poor unfortunae women to yield their 
lives to Christ and live for Him who died for all poor sinners, as 
we read Romans: ''All have sinned and came short of the glory 
of God; therefore all must be born again." St. John 3 :6: ''And 
Paul says the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal 
life through Jesus Christ our Lord." 

A woman with five children was deserted by her husband 
several times. Three died and one is in the Home for Friend- 
less Children and one with the mother. Her health ruined and 
despondent at times, she came to Beulah Anchorage and was 
converted and is now getting along fine, spiritually and physi- 
cally. The boy, who was a shadow, was brought out nicely. 
God continue His blessings, is our prayer. I can hear them say: 

When I remember that Jesus loves me, 
When in His beauty I see the Great King, 
In His dear, loving arms I did flee, 
And He pardoned my sins and set me free. 
Home is awaiting for my children and me 
Around the white throne on high. 
Somewhere, some time. 



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''Serve God and Mammon" 

An appeal to matter of fact. — Math. 6:24. 

No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the 
one and love the other. Ye cannot serve two masters. Luke 
16, 9-10-11-12-13 says so. You cannot serve two masters. 
Therefore the constitution of the Beulah Anchorage Rescue 
Home, as you will find it included ''last" in this book, 
asks for transformation, saved and sanctified. Accordingly all 
flesh is of grass and glory of man as grass. I Peter 1 :24-25. 
That God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble. 
I Peter 5 :6. It demonstrates man's weakness, who consents 
indeed to the law that is good, but finds not how to fulfill it. 
Rom. 8:16-19. As a battery erected against our pride where 
it has due effect. It silences all our self-righteous pleas and 
convinces us that a returning sinner is not justified by works of 
the law, but by faith in Christ. A broken law, a law which 
worketh wrath, being absolutely unable to absolve its violater. 
In a word, it is our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ and 
drive us with the rod of threatening punishments, to make us 
touch the sceptre of mercy held out to us from the throne of 
Grace. 

And while we remain strangers to our helpless and hope- 
less state by nature, far from making this proper use of the law, 
we trust in it and fancy, that the merit of our unsprinkled 
nature be washed in the blood of the Lamb. 

You see, reader, that a train of fatal consequences results 
from rejecting. You cannot serve God and Mammon; repent- 
ance. Cut out Mammon-worldliness with all its sins. Your 
sorrow, it is true, may endure for a night or days. But joy 
will come in the morning — the joy of God's salvation and 
pardon of your sins. Having much forgiven you, you will 



EARNESTNESS 155 

then love much and admire in proportion to the riches of Divine 
wisdom, goodness, justice and power. A convicted sinner and 
saved, cannot only escape impending ruin, but enter into pres- 
ent possession of a spiritual paradise, where peace and joy 
blossom together, and whence welcome death will ere long 
translate our triumphant soul to those unseen, unheard of, 
inconceivable glories, which God hath prepared for them that 
love Him. 1 Cor. 2-9. The children of God are some charac- 
ters and evidences that they are born for heaven by their new 
birth. That holiness and meekness, that patience and faith, 
that shine in the actions, and suffering of the saints. Til go 
singing, I'll go shouting on my journey home, ''Till the day 
breaks" there'll be singing. There'll be shouting when we all 
get home, when the day breaks over the hill. No more will I 
wander in sin and disgrace, for Jesus has shown me His beautiful 
face. Be faithful until I reach my home in glory. Already at 
least six Beulah Anchorage inmates have crossed the river. 
"With a witness," "being born again," and we know they 
landed safe across the river of Death into the Glory Land. 
Home forever with the Lord. Amen. 



Earnestness 

Every person who believes in the Bible should be an 
earnest Christian. As President Edwards says: "Eternal things 
are so great and of such vast concern that there is a great ab- 
surdity in men's being but moderately moved and aflfected by 
them." 

It is reasonable that our concern in any matter should be 
in proportion to the greatness of the interests at stake. A man 
in danger of being drowned is not ridiculed for putting forth 
every exertion in his power to save his life. Christ, who knows 
the value of this life and of that which is to come, assures us 



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that the death of the body bears no comparison with the loss of 
the soul. Math. 10:28. He who is diligent to provide for 
himself a comfortable home, though he can occupy it at most 
but a few fleeting years. Christ tells us that in His Father's 
house are many mansions and that He has gone to prepare a 
place for His followers. John 14:2. If, then, there is a hell to 
shun, where sinners of every degree are received, where their 
worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched, where hope has 
fled forever, and where the dark pall of endless night enshrouds 
the lost in unmitigated gloom, shall we not be in earnest to keep 
out of it? Shall any sacrifice be too great, any eflfort be too 
stupendous to avoid a destiny so unbearable? Warnings of 
God to bring ourselves and all we possibly can into that refuge 
which God has prepared against that day in which the heavens 
shall pass away with a great noise and the elements shall melt 
with fervent heat, the earth also, and the works that are therein 
shall be burned up. II Peter 3:10. If that day was upon us, 
would not you be afraid ? Is it not better to be alarmed in time, 
to take warning in season? Prophet and apostle tell us: "Eye 
hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart 
of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love 
Him." I. Cor. 2:9. Shall we not, then, be in earnest to gain 
them? With heaven or hell before us, indifference is insanity, 
indolence is folly and madness. No exertion can be greater 
than the doom to be averted and the prize to be won will war- 
rant. So it came to me that nothing is more necessary than a 
home for the unfortunate. I never had much to give for the 
poor, so many I had helped and blessed with consolation for 
soul and body, and it gives me great cause to thank God, for 
many were rescued. God bless every soul that is reached a 
helping hand. And may everybody stand by that this Home be 
brought again for the unfortunate and poor and wayward. No 
limit to age. The Bible will punish whoever stand by to change 
the Home to a formal and social and age limit. Where will the 



THE NECESSITY OF NEW BIRTH l57 

unfortunate go in this city? This was the first and only home 
for the unfortunate ones, as you find in this book — a few 
mentioned out of many that we helped, and who came in day 
and night to be helped spiritually and physically. God take 
care of all who ever received the teaching and help. 



The Necessity of New Birth 

We have no hope for the human race outside of the Gospel 
of Jesus Christ as written in our Bible. Preached, believed and 
experienced by our fathers and mothers who are now in heaven. 
We repudiate all substitutes. We believe that all men with 
their doctrines, theories and notions out of harmony with plain 
teachings of the word of God are deceived and are deceivers and 
should be shunned as the most dangerous enemies of mankind. 
We believe in the necessity of the new birth — that it takes two 
births to bring man into the kingdom of heaven. The one is 
physical, which brings him into conscious, physical life; the 
other is spiritual, which brings him into conscious, spiritual life. 
We have no sort of sympathy with doctrines being advocated 
and preached by many men today. Not a few ministers preach 
that children do not need regeneration. We do not believe 
one word of it. It is a most dangerous heresy. Babies are in- 
nocent and covered no doubt by the atonement, but their 
natures are depraved. They go astray from babyhood before 
they understand the nature or turpitude of evil. They commit 
sin when they come to years of accountability. Their natural 
drift is sinward and away from God. They need the regenerat- 
ing power of the Holy Spirit. The children reared by the best 
of Christians, in the best of homes, taught the truth from their 
infancy, protected with the greatest of care, fall under deep 
conviction for sin and are brightly converted in their very small 
childhood, six, seven and eight years of age. Ministers must not 
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Preachers in our pulpits today, who are opposing regeneration 
and talking about children being so trained up that they do not 
need the regeneration power of the Holy Ghost, are helping to 
dig the foundations from beneath us. One of the most startling 
and painful things to parents is the fact that while their children 
are remarkably young they give startling evidence of shameful 
sinfulness. First our preachers gave up the doctrine of sanctifi- 
cation, set apart for Christ to do His bidding. Not a few are 
unsound in their teaching with reference to future punishment 
of the wicked. Numbers of them are opposing evangelists and 
unfriendly to the old-time revival religion. All of this is posi- 
tive evidence of fearful backsliding and decay. Yet those who 
hold by the old truth preached mightily and struck fearlessly 
and called upon God to give the evidences of His presence in 
the world and the power of the old Gospel to overthrow false 
teaching and save the lost multitudes, as the dear souls of the 
Beulah Anchorage, who were always converted in the Home in 
the lecture room and got established. They were willing to 
obey the Lord to worship in the Beauty of Holiness. 



Take Heed 

Beware who takes part to overstep or change the Beulah 
Anchorage Rescue Home and ignore the installed plans through 
God by the Founder. Of more value than all the world. 

What! A poor fallen wretch, an outcast of society. 

What! One so depraved and impure that even their own 
family will not own. 

What! One so foul and steeped in sin that all avoid. 

What ! One whose life has been so immoral that none will help 
but to more debauchery. 




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What! One with so many scars from a life of impurity thai 
all turn away. 

A wretch in the gutter! Yes. 

The Bible says: **Even such a soul is of more value than 
the whole world." Mark 8:36-37. 

Are you down and out, sick in body and soul with none to 
help. 

There is one who cares for you even in your filthy con- 
dition. Rom. 5 :8. ''One who waits to cleanse you from your 
sins." 

John 3 :7 : 'Te must be born again." 

The lecture room is the church where the souls find Jesus. 
The rescue means find Jesus in the Home. 



Dear Ones, the Lord's Coming 

I am saved and sanctified — that means for Christ, to live 
and work for Him, to be ready for the Lord's coming. I am 
proving the Lord is able to save and keep His own right in the 
face of what seems like discouragement. But it seems that, 
although His disappointment in believers is a bitter task, as long 
as it comes from the worldly and blind source, it is an expected 
suffering. But he who wants to see souls saved must feel a 
burden for souls. Concern begets concern. A message given 
by one who has little feeling for the lost seldom results in con- 
verting sinners to God. When indifferent at heart you may 
interest, but it does not conceive. Painted fire never burns. If 
one is himself awake he will awake others. As soon as Beulah 
Home travailed, fasted and offered heart-felt prayer she brought 
forth her converted children. Isa. 66 :S. John Smith 
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in the circuit, was told one morning by a pious friend that he 
looked very unwell. He said in reply that he spent the whole 
of the preceding day and night in fasting and prayer, and that 
he was assured that God would shortly begin a glorious revival 
in this place, and the work of conversion was carried on in a 
most astonishing manner and increased more and more. Souls 
from afar, as it were, come by flocks to Jesus Christ. 

From day to day, for many months together, might be 
seen evident instances of sinners brought out of darkness into 
marvelous light and delivered out of a horrible pit and the miry 
clay and set upon a rock with a new song of praise to God in 
their mouths. This work was carried on with much earnest- 
ness and agonizing prayer. Same at Beulah Home, which had 
to dig and get low at Jesus' feet where he could use us for souls. 
I would say, "Now some needy one is coming. Are you ready to 
help that soul into the kingdom? " Oh, it meant so much, and 
many dear people did not realize what was going on, and there- 
fore I was found fault with and mocked at by such that didn't 
understand; to get a revival spirit, to get precious souls saved 
that are lost, lost, lost. Most of the churches are sleeping and 
God is speaking. I thank God for His mighty power to awake 
the dear people to rescue the souls and enjoy the blessed meet- 
ings again. Whoever takes the stand at any time to stop a 
revival service, weekly and Sunday afternoon meetings, is a 
secret to me. For rescue work. Not to take advantage to get 
the lost souls to seek Jesus who died for the sin of the world. 



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This rescue institution system, to get them to understand 
when they sing and when they read to get the spiritual meaning 
and light, and many were people who did not understand what 
kind of work we were driving at. Nicodemus asked Jesus how to 
get born again. Some were unconcerned, while others opposed 
because they were prejudiced. They only know how to find 
fault as the Pharisee did when Jesus taught them and demon- 
strated by healing the sick and forgiving their sins. But they 
opposed Him, had malice in their hearts and planned to kill 
Him. Therefore the rescue was done direct not only to re- 
form, but transform by the Holy Spirit. Those that seek Him 
shall find Him, as He says: *'My yoke is easy and my burden is 
light, and ye shall find rest unto your souls." And a throne of 
grace is provided for Christ, who died for all mankind. 

Praise his dear name. 



A Destitute, Wayward Girl 

A girl from West Chester became an inmate of the Beulah 
Anchorage, straying from home on account of marrying a very 
old man of 70 and the girl not out of her teens. She cried and 
seen she made her life a slaving one and wanted to stay in the 
Home, but her husband came and demanded the girl. I labored 
with her and tried to tell her to take Christ in her heart and life 
and help the dear aged man to accept Christ also. And she re- 
pented, claimed to be converted and finally left to take up her 
hard cross. Her aunt promised to stand by her and said he 
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she passed most of her time crying. I told her that if she stick 
she will learn many lessons to preserve her for her future life. 
After the dear old man died she kept on saying that she cannot 
stand it. I encouraged her to get her mind on Christ. I Sam. 
12:22. "The Lord will not forsake his people for his great 
name's sake, because it hath pleased the Lord to make you His 
people." And she took courage and went through by the grace 
of God. 

My dear girl, Jesus says: John 8:12. "I am the light of the 
world; he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but 
shall have the light of life." Luke 2:10 says: *Tear not, for 
behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy." My dear, just 
take courage and live for Him who died for you. Luke 6:46 
says: "And why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things 
which I say." Now, ask the Lord to make you spiritually con- 
cerned and you will not fret over your cross, as to save a soul 
from destruction is heaven below. Now, dear reader, beware 
to take a step in life unconcerned. Jesus will lead you if you 
draw near to Him and show you His way, which is far above 
our way. It is a delight to serve the Lord if willing to part with 
the follies of the world and become spiritual. Then we just love 
to go to church and prayer meeting and class meeting. We just 
love to commune in secret where cometh our strength from, 
and we just love to be useful to God if He leads us in some cot- 
tage prayer meeting, to lead on, as Jesus has a work for every- 
body that follows Him. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they 
shall see God. My dear girl, remember, I pray for you. 



Holy Spirit Guide. Prov. 14:34 

When it gives each a chance for the Holy Spirit to work 
on their mind and heart, the sweet joy that Christ brought into 
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mind of what. They sing, and I often thought if the leader re- 
minded them, it would stir their minds and get some help. So 
when I spoke every one had to pay attention. I questioned 
them what was said; then they looked so good natured at me as 
if they would like to say ''I forgot," and brighten up brings the 
light of being born of the Holy Spirit. 

1 have witnessed many souls raised from the very pit by 
the touch of Jesus and made glorious women in the Beulah 
Anchorage. The lecture room, which was kept sacred, and the 
men in my prison work called on me after they were dismissed, 
and I helped them with fare to return home. I was able to do 
only little things until I got the door of Beulah Rescue Home 
open. But this world has no charms for me. I want to work 
for Christ and receive the treasures laid up in heaven for me, 
and receive a starry crown and blood-washed robe. So we 
keep on praying and keep at it and took courage, and kept on 
telling God to remind the good people of Beulah Anchorage 
Home for the fallen and homeless and unfortunate. 

Many souls would get saved and keep saved if they were 
encouraged rather than hindered and discouraged. 

Such ministers that have no experimental religion, who- 
ever they are, if not taught and sought especially, object to 
bringing righteousness near. It shall not be far off. "Seek ye 
while I may be found ; call upon me and I will have mercy upon 
you." Many a girl came from a good family, but is persuaded 
by the demon tempter and is thus led on a downward course 
and soon becomes discouraged. But you must get them to see 
how Jesus loves the wayward and fallen and perishing souls and 
love them to come home. When I gave the message, by the 
time I stopped I could see souls ready to accept Christ in their 
heart and life after the words of Christ were urged. 



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Fine Girl Lands at Beulah Anchorage 

A Lost Girl Found by Her Broken-Hearted Mother 

One of the dear girls — her first attempt to leave home 
without permission and landing at City Hall — was brought to 
Beulah Anchorage, and she soon was under conviction and will- 
ing to come forward and seek her dear Saviour, whom she real- 
ized died for her on Calvary. She got gloriously converted. 
Her mother was out seeking for her beautiful Emma, who was 
tall and fair and sensible makeup. She was from Pottstown, 
and found her at Beulah Anchorage, Reading, through City 
Hall. As the bell rang, I answered, and there was the mother 
with a broken heart, weeping. She asked, "Is my Emma 
here? " I answered "Yes," and Emma stood at the top of the 
stairs. She came flying down and, after meeting each other, 
they had a good, heart-breaking cry, mingled with joy for the 
mother who found her daughter Emma. She asked her to go 
home with her, but Emma looked at me, for this new life she 
had entered she thought she would love to stay. I explained it 
to the mother and asked her to let her stay at least two months, 
and finally she consented, as I told her she needed the spiritual 
training that is given to the girls here, which will do her future 
life good and bring blessings, and she consented. Then she told 
ner mother how she found Jesus, and it made her supremely 
happy. I had organized a mission band for our Saturday night's 
recreation. Each got a select reading and each had a chance 
to give comments on their selection, which was interesting to 
them and helpful We had piano music, all sacred so as to grow 
in the knowledge on Jesus our Lord, forget their wayward life 
and enjoy the Christian life, which is the only life to live, and 
gain the eternal, unspeakable home in glory, and, after several 
hymns, they always selected two new ones. They had no 
time for Jim or old maid cards or picture shows. The time was 
too short. All bowed on our knees for each to say their prayers, 



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which they learned to love, and in concert closed with the Lord's 
Prayer, and a little child, two and one-half years old, came 
around for the collection and would sing ''Let the Pennies Fall" 
and close with the Mizpah. 



Mother Came to Take Emma Home 

When mother came for her dear girl she loved so, she told 
her she would love to stay longer, as she loved this work of the 
Beulah Anchorage. ''Mother, don't cry any more; I'll go along 
and be a good girl ; never have any trouble with me any more, 
as I am converted. I don't care for nothing of worldliness." 
When she was eighteen years old she wrote and said, "My com- 
panion girl is converted. She took Jesus in her heart and life.'* 
In the last letter to me she said she is so glad she was brought 
into Beulah Anchorage and got converted. "I still do thy wish, 
that is, to love and obey Jesus, for He is good to me. Re- 
member me to young and old inmates." 

He is our guide and best friends. She says: "I may come 
to many a thorny path and rocky road, but I look forward to 
the glorious reward on the other side." And she says: "I am 
now married to an orphan boy and have a good husband and a 
fine baby boy. Come and see us. He got converted, too. We 
read the Bible together and have prayers; enjoy married life 
in the Lord very much. Thank God. I do miss little Beulah, 
who held the collection and sang 'Let the Pennies Fall," which 
brought so much sunshine in the meetings. I do miss you, al- 
though I pray for you all Don't forget Emma." 



A Homeless Inmate 

A graduate of High School was a cook at one of the Read- 
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to this kind of rescue work. She soon got converted and be- 
came a dining room girl for years. She just knew the place for 
each one's plate, cup and saucer and spoon, knife and fork and 
all the different dishes. She kept each kind in its place. No 
one was so careful and knew so well. She was also a help in 
cooking and separating the markets; was very careful about 
certain things, and where she was adapted for that work 1 
planned for her and she was dependable, unless sick. So I was 
always motherly to her bodily cleanliness when she needed as- 
sistance. We would not need a home if all could help them- 
selves. You must be helpful. These three staffs were greatly 
dependable help for whatever plan we got for them. Josy 
took pride in her work and was always on time, which was help- 
ful in an institutional way. It means so much to have system. 
Everything was in its place and kept in its place systematically. 
Many who went through noticed it; others did not notice un- 
less it was explained, and 1 thank the Lord to help us altogether 
to get as far as we were when I left. But it was a privilege to 
have the staffs stand by, as others come and go, and just as 
soon as they were broken in the rules and systems of the Home, 
why, some of their people would turn up and want them. But 
I was glad I had a chance to get them converted and teach them 
how to pray and go about with the daily work. Lots of families 
have no daily work. The next help the new people thought 
to get the Home in a moving condition. It is great work, but 
they had nothing in order, only confusion. No girl learns in a 
work and home of confusion. 



To Such as Inquire What Must We Do to be Saved? 

Now, some have taken leave of the thoughtless gay, there- 
fore I want to regard an appeal to our reason as little as to the 
warnings of their conscience. Now say to God, I return to the 



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serious. By repentance toward Thee, my God of love and Jesus 
Christ and be weary of feeding upon the husks of earthly vani- 
ties. My dear girls and sisters, 1 have a right, therefore, as a 
steward of the mysteries of God to bring to you the truths, and 
I gladly give them to you. Instead of ridiculing or dreading a 
heartfelt conviction of thy lost estate, thou now seest it is a 
desirable privilege and valuable blessing. 

Now, my dear ones, thou want the feelings of the royal 
penitent, for he said: ^'Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; I ac- 
knowledge my transgressions and my sin that is ever before 
me." David says: ''But conscience cannot raise them by na- 
tural powers. Except thou truly repent thou shalt surely 
perish. No true repentance where there is not true sorrow for 
sin. The Spiritual power. Divinely directed, gives us absolute 
dominion over all flesh and every possible from of evil. Rev. 
12:10. Essence of right doings is right thinking. And Jer. 
6:19 says: "Behold, I will bring evil upon the people, even the 
fruit of their thoughts." 

Brother Paul says to the Corinthians: "I rejoice that they 
were made Godly sorrow." Repent to salvation. Some lose 
all patience when they see their best righteousness brought to 
light and exposed as filthy rags. They fill up the measure of 
their iniquities, as Cain and Pharoah and Haman. They burden 
their own hearts and prejudices all around them against the 
blessed Godly sorrow. I see it is of the Lord's mercies that we 
are not consumed. For in hell no request be met, but right 
down here God will meet your request and pardon and cast all 
in the sea of forgetfulness. 



168 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

Jesus does for us so we can say, 
My soul no more is thirsting, 

For Jesus dwells within. 
He satisfies my longings 

And keeps me from all sin. 

Praise His dear name. 



By Conquering Faith 

By conquering faith we refer to that faith that enables you 
to do exploits. Read I John 5:4: "For whatsoever is born of 
God overcometh the world." And this is the victory that over- 
cometh the world, even our faith. Also read Ephesians 6:16: 
"Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able 
to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked." This does not say 
we shall quench some of the fiery darts, but all the fiery darts of 
the wicked. We should be more than conquerors. No artillery 
on earth or hell can penetrate the shield of faith. It makes you 
invincible. Faith is the victory over every difficulty. 

As a reference on assurance of faith, you may read He- 
brews 10:22: "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assur- 
ance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled with an evil con- 
science." You will observe that this assurance is the result of 
having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. It is con- 
ditioned upon experience, or rather the result of experience. 



HOSE A 169 

Hosea 

Hosea and the eleven following are called "the lesser 
Prophets," on account of their writings being less in bulk than 
the others; although it is probable they preached as much as the 
others, Hosea was the first of the writing prophets, even before 
Isaiah, and it appears that both Isaiah and Eziekiel frequently 
borrowed from him. Thus being taught of one spirit, the one 
confirms what the other has spoken. Before you study the 
writings of his prophet you would do well to carefully read the 
chapters here referred to; 2 Kings 15:2; Chron. 26, 27, 28. 
He prophecies chiefly relate to the ten tribes, who were then 
in prosperity: and whom he sharply charges with their murders. 
Uncleanness, idolatries, oppression and reliance on the Assyrians; 
and intermingles a variety of calls to a reformation of life, with 
a promise of God's blessing on their repentance. He is very 
brief in his manner and to us, who are unacquainted with many 
of the ancient customs, appears obscure in his writings. The 
Jews reckon him to have prophesied nearly ninety years; and 
the scope of his discourses is to discover sin, and denounce the 
judgements of God against the obstinately impenitent. The 
name of Hosea signifies Saviour, or Salvation. 



1 70 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." — 
Ps. 119:105. 

We owe the life of our souls to the death of the Saviour. 
But for the light of the world, we had all been in darkness: 
John 8:12. The word of God is a lamp and light; it discovers 
manifold mysteries; it directs men's course, and comforts their 
hearts amidst the darkness of this world; it reveals to us things 
divine and eternal, and guides us to glory and happiness: Matt. 
4:16. Without the word of God, man would be left upon a 
boundless ocean, stormy and dark, without either compass, 
quadrant, or chart; gulped in obscurity, with not a gleam of 
light to tell him where his brittle bark would strike. But God, 
who is rich in mercy, has not left us in this deplorable condi- 
tion; the Sun of righteousness has arisen to enlighten our way 
across the sea of life; to cheer the darkness that surrounds us, 
and point to the port of Heaven. 

"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet." It discovers that 
which concerns us most; and what we should never have known 
without it. It warns us of the duties we are to perform, and 
the dangers we are to avoid: Ps. 19:11. It guides our eyes, 
and directs our feet, all through the path of life to endless life : 
Prov. 6:23. It is "a light to our path;" a lamp trimmed with 
the Spirit; constantly burning; and no storms can put it out: 
Ps. 119:89. It informs us how all things were made — how 
man fell from his original happiness; forfeited the favor of God; 
and brought himself, with all his posterity, under the curse of a 
broken law: Rom. 5 :12. It illuminates the dreary dungeon of 
man, by unfolding to his view the plan of Redemption: Gen. 



TO HEARING AND READING THE WORD 171 

3 :5. But it should ever be remembered, a lamp will do us no 
good unless we make use of it. The word of God must be 
used; not only to please our eyes and ears, but as a "light to 
our path;" to enlighten our understanding, and direct us 
through this world to that which is to come: Ps. 119:130. 
God intended, when He gave us this wonderful **lamp," that 
we should constantly walk by the **light" of it; and look well 
to our steps: Isa. 2 :3. The Bible should be our constant study, 
our daily companion and oracle. 



1 72 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: 
for they shall be filled." — Matt. 5:6. 

To have a desire for that which is good, is an evidence of 
something good, and an earnest of something better: Ps. 
145 : 19. To thirst after happiness is natural; it is also natural 
to seek it from wrong objects." "Blessed are they" who are 
panting, pining and thirsting after Christ and His righteousness: 
Ps. 24:5. It is not a cold, formal wish that will secure the 
blessing; but a desire like that which a hungry man has for 
bread; or a thirsty one for water. Christ, the Captain of our 
salvation, has brought in an everlasting righteousness; and 
''blessed are they," blessed now, who desire to obtain that 
spiritual food to sustain the soul, and drink to refresh it. Every 
good desire is a plant of God's own raising; and every desire 
after righteousness shall be fed, watered, and satisfied. 'They 
shall be filled" with those blessings they so ardently desire: Ps. 
107:9. A soul that is quickened can no more live without its 
regular meals of "righteousness" than the body can without 
meat and drink: Ps. 63:1. The soul requires daily-grace, as 
much as the body does daily-bread, to enable it to perform its 
daily-duty. There are those who pant after dust, but will never 
be satisfied; for it is God alone can satisfy the cravings of an 
immortal soul: Amos 2:7. 

Blessed are they who know their own emptiness, and be- 
lieve in Christ's fulness; "for they shall be filled" with all the 
blessings of Jesus' everlasting righteousness; acceptance with 
God, and peace from God; filled with all the fruits of righteous- 
ness; with all the graces of the Spirit on earth, and all the glory 



TO DESIRE OF GRACE 173 

of God in heaven: Ps. 65:4. Say, Christian, are you panting 
after Jesus? Do you see the perfection of His atonement, and 
the glory of His righteousness? Is the triumph of His cross, 
and the victory of His death, the foundation of your faith, and 
the support of your hope? If so, ''blessed are ye:" for these 
are the love-tokens that Jesus bestows. O, the delightful inter- 
course that subsists between hungry souls and righteous Jesus! 
Whatever would, or could, have kept poor, hungering, and 
thristing souls from fainting, if Jesus had not pronounced them 
blessed ? It is truly a happy hunger. 



174 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

"I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me 
should not abide in darkness." — John 12:46. 

Thank God! though our case is bad, it is not desperate; 
though we have wandered in the dark, we are not left in it: 
John 8:12. We have here — 

First. The design of Christ's mission: "I am come a 
light," &c. He is the source and medium of all divine knowl- 
edge, and came a "light into the world;" 1st. By His office. 
He had, for ages, been announced as "the Sun of righteous- 
ness:" Mai. 4:2; and a "light to lighten the Gentiles:" Isa. 62:6. 
He taught the most sublime and important doctrines — explained 
the law and the prophets — made known the will of God, John 
1 :18, the redemption of the world, and the way of salvation: 
John 3:16-18. 2d. By His Gospel. "Life and immortality 
are brought to light by the Gospel :" 2 Tim. 1:10. It discovers 
the nature, blessings and privileges of the covenant of grace; 
and teaches the only way to holiness, happiness and heaven: 
I Cor. 1:21. 3d. By His Spirit. He dissipates darkness and 
error, and, as a Spirit of wisdom, communicates spiritual knowl- 
edge and holiness to them that believe: 1 Cor. 2:10. Thus 
Christ is the true light of the moral world. 

Secondly. The principle of salvation; "that whosoever be- 
lieveth on me." 1st. The object of faith is specified; "on Me." 
We should believe in the divinity of His person — the authority 
of His mission — the efficacy of His sacrifice — the dignity of His 
offices — and the sufficiency of His grace: 2 Cor. 5 :18, 19. 2d. 
The nature of faith is implied; "whosoever believeth." Faith 
is represented by looking to, Isa. 45:22, receiving from. Matt. 



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TO FAITH IN CHRIST 175 

1 1 :28, and trusting in Christ, for every promised blessing: Eph. 
1 :12, 13. 3d. The necessity of faith is suggested. ''He that 
believeth not is condemned already;" John 3:18. But living 
faith in the Redeemer secures all the benefits of redemption: 
John 3:36. 

Thirdly. The privilege of believers; "they shall not abide 
in darkness." 1st. They shall not abide in mental darkness: 
I Pet. 2 :9. The former darkness is passed away. 2d. They 
shall not abide in spiritual darkness. Faith in Jesus delivers the 
soul from guilt, purifies the heart, and fills it with peace and 
joy. 



176 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

"When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also ap- 
pear with him in glory." — Col. 3:4. 

Jesus Christ is the life of all who believe on Him: Gal. 
2:20. By Him we are brought to the enjoyment of God: 
being quickened by His Spirit, and conformed to His image, we 
are enabled to live on God's fulness of grace, and do all with an 
eye to His glory: Phil. 1 :21. He is "our life," being the source 
and maintainer of life; He purchased eternal life for His people; 
bestows it on them; dwells in their hearts; comforts them while 
on their pilgrimage; and, at their journey's end, will give them 
all that eternal blessedness He has purchased and prepared for 
them: John 1 1 :25. Christ is now hid, and our life is hid with 
Him; but He will not always be concealed: for He will "appear" 
in all the splendor of the heavenly world, accompanied by ten 
thousand times ten thousand glorified saints and angels: Dan. 
7:10; Rev. 7:9, 10. It will be Christ's glory to have His saints 
with Him; 2 Thess. 1 :10; and it will be their glory to be with 
Him: John 17:24. What a glorious meeting, when glorified 
saints, and glorified angels, with a glorified Christ, "appear in 
glory!" 

And "ye also," yes, "ye also, shall appear with Him in 
glory:" notwithstanding your unworthiness, your many short- 
comings, and base ingratitude. He will have you with Him in 
glory: John 13:1. There is your head; there is your home; 
there is your all; and there "ye shall be also;" and that forever. 
Even on earth, the Christian realizes more of the glory of 
heaven than he can find language to express. What can equal 
the state of those, who, with humble confidence, can say, 



I 



OF GLORY IN HEAVEN 177 

"Being justified and sanctified by faith, we have peace with 
God, through our Lord Jesus Christ; by whom also we have 
access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in 
hope of the glory of God?" Rom. 5:1, 2. The thought of 
such amazing glory in heaven, creates constant joys upon 
earth! "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, 
worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of 
glory;" 2 Cor. 4:17. But why should we any longer darken 
counsel with words, seeing it is impossible for finite language to 
describe infinite glory? 1 Cor. 2:9. But what we know not 
now, we shall know hereafter. 



178 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

"They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; 
and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever." 
—Dan. 12:3. 

Many are wise in their own account, who are fools in 
God's account: 1 Cor. 3 :19. None are truly wise, but such as 
are wise for their souls and eternity: and all such, being taught 
of God, must be truly wise; and it will be made to appear in 
eternity, that they were such ; although they were counted fools. 
They who walk in the way of wisdom in time, shall have a glori- 
ous reward in eternity. "They shall shine as the brightness of 
the firmament." Here they are buried in obscurity, and loaded 
with reproach and shame; but there, when God shall have rolled 
away their reproach, they will shine Hike an unclouded sky; and 
that in the same proportion as they have made themselves use- 
ful in instructing others: Matt. 5 :19. For "they that turn many 
to righteousness," that is, turn the wicked from the error of their 
ways, from sin to holiness, and help them to fly from that death 
which is the wages of sin; shall have a great addition to their 
own glory by sharing in the glory of others: James 5:20. 
"They shall shine as the stars." Christ is the Sun, the fountain 
of all light, and those who teach others may be considered as 
stars; some shining much brighter than others, but all shining in 
that light they derive from Him who is the Author of Light; both 
of grace and glory. 

Figures were originally used, not for ornament, but to 
explain the sacred truths; we need them for the same purpose 
still. We have no way of understanding what is difficult, but by 
the application of what is familiar. No wonder, then, in order 



OF GLORY IN HEAVEN 179 

that we might have some weak conceptions of the glory of 
heaven, that we read of rivers of pleasure; trees of life; palms of 
victory; crowns of glory; f eastings and mirths; treasures and 
triumphs; singing and shouting; — and a thousand other images 
which serve to show us a little of the glorious substance, which 
God has laid up for them that fear him: Ps. 31 :19. And when 
the stars shall fall from heaven as leaves from the trees, and 
their lights shall have gone out, the saints shall shine "forever 
and ever." Trim your lamp in time, that it may burn well in 
eternity. 



180 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

"I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of 
thy Lord."— Matt. 25:21 

Christ will never say, "Well done!" to any who have not 
done well. It matters but little who speaks ill of us in this our 
day, if we but know that God will speak well of us in the last 
day. But our Redeeming Lord will not put his faithful servants 
oif with merely giving them a good name; for he will do well 
unto them: Rom 2:6. *'I will make thee ruler over many 
things." All we can do for Christ is very little; and it is most 
ungrateful not to do the little we may. If all our doings, suffer- 
ings and improvings were put together, they would scarcely be 
worth naming; much less worthy to be compared with the glory 
which shall be revealed by him for, yea, in us: Rom. 8:18. 
Amongst the "many things" he has in store for those who 
serve him, are a crown of righteousness : 2 Tim. 5 :8 ; a throne of 
glory: Rev. 3:21; and a kingdom: Luke 12:32. They may 
have been beggars here, but that shall not prevent their being 
rulers in heaven. Here they have but flashes of joy and floods 
of sorrow; but there they shall enter fully "into the joy of their 
Lord." The joy of heaven will be pure, free from all alloy: an 
ocean of joy without one drop of grief. Let the eye turn which 
way soever it may, nothing but joy will be to be seen: — the 
presence and enjoyment of God and the Lamb will fill both soul 
and body unutterably full of unutterable joy. Born of the spirit 
and sanctified by his blood. All sadness shall be turned into 
songs; and the tears in which you now sow, will issue in floods, 
yea rivers of pleasure for you to bathe in : Rev. 7:15-17. Now 
we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face. Now we 
know in part; then shall we know even as we are known. Now 



OF PLEASURE AND JOY IN HEAVEN 181 

we are assaulted by the enemy; then we shall be freed from 
every foe; and have nothing in us that temptation can operate 
upon. Nothing will be found there to mar our pleasures, nor 
wound our peace. Here when Christians are in their infancy 
there they will arrive at the fulness of the stature of Christ. 
Here, at best, they are faithful over but few things; there they 
are made "rulers over many things." Here we are saved by 
faith in Christ; there we possess the reality. Now we have 
the earnest; then the inheritance. 



182 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

"We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the 
body, and to be present with the Lord." — 2 Cor. 5 :8. 

Where the treasure is there the heart will be: Matt. 6:21. 
A man who is constantly traveling need often wash his feet; and 
so does the Christian need often to go to the fountain, that 
Christ may wash his heart: John 13 :10. All who would have 
immediate happiness after death, must be prepared for it on 
earth. Death can never convert a soul to God: no; the most 
that death can do, is to fetch the converted home to God; and 
that he cannot do till sent by him. As the Lord prepares the 
heart. Pro v. 16:1, so he gives the earnest of the Spirit as part- 
payment, and which assures its possessors of the balance, after 
their work is done: 2 Cor. 1 :22. The blessed comforts of the 
Spirit here, are sure earnests of glory hereafter; and enable 
those who possess them to say, "We are confident;" what ever 
doubts we may have upon other matters, we have none with 
regard to our future happiness: "we know whom we have be- 
lieved;" and whenever death comes, he will find us both ready 
and willing to accompany him: Heb. 12:23. The Christian 
finds but little here to court his stay; his treasure is laid up in 
heaven; his happiness is to be with Jesus, even while in the body, 
where his interviews with him are short and interrupted; he is 
therefore, "willing rather to be absent from the body, and pres- 
ent with the Lord." He desires to be with Christ altogether; 
but this cannot be while in the body, he had therefore rather be 
without the body than without Jesus: Phil 1 :23. In the body, 
we live to suffer; absent from the body, we live to reign: Rom. 
8:17. "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord." These, and 
these only, are blessed immediately on the soul leaving the body. 
His righteousness is theirs to justiify them: 1 Cor. 6:1 1. They 



OF HAPPINESS IMMEDIATELY AFTER DEATH 183 

have a title for glory and a meetness for it: Rom. 8:15-17. 
They have a capacity for its services, and a susceptibility of its 
joys: 1 Cor. 13 :12. In learning to live, study how to die; that 
you may exchange a bed of death for a crown of life: 2 Tim. 
4:8. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, were happy immediately 
after death: Matt. 22:32; so were Moses and Elias: Mark 4:4; 
and so will every believer be. 



184 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

"Ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, 
Father."— Rom. 8:15. 

This is the peculiar story of gospel-grace; sinners become 
the sons of God; and have the joyful knowledge of it here upon 
earth: 1 John 3:1-2. Observe. 

1st. Every believer in Christ is the son, or child of God: 
John 1:12; and as such each one has the witness in himself: 
Rom. 8:16; and has the broad seal of heaven put upon him: 2 
Cor. 1 :22. What have you to fear from the world, if you are 
a heaven-born child? 

2d 'Te have received the Spirit," not of bondage; no; the 
Spirit of God never was, nor ever can be the spirit of bondage 
to any soul; it is contrary to his nature; he is a Spirit of liberty, 
that takes the things of Christ and shows them unto us: John 
16:14. He convinces of sin, breaks the yoke of sin and the 
law, of death and Satan: that the soul might become united to 
Christ by faith. We receive the ''Spirit of adoption" by the 
faith of Jesus; we see God's righteous law fulfilled by his perfect 
obedience: Rom. 5:19. Through this righteousness, the Spirit 
brings peace to our troubled consciences, and frees us from 
all our guilty fears: Rom. 5 :1. God has no still-born children; 
and the children, like ours soon give signs of life by their cries. 

3d The spirit gives us a cry; and becomes a Spirit of grace 
and supplication to us: Eph. 6:18. Do not plead your ignor- 
ance any longer; for **ye have received the spirit of adoption;" 
and that Spirit will teach you what to say, and how to say it. 

4th ''Whereby we cry, Abba, Father." What a precious 
cry! none but a regenerate soul could ever utter such a cry: 



OF THE SPIRIT'S HELP IN PRAYER 185 

Rom. 8:26. You may have many enemies standing between 
you and a throne of grace, who will do all they can to prevent 
your approach; but you have one Friend stronger than all, who 
will lead you through them all: Heb. 2:10. Never listen to 
unbelief, or you may be reasoned out of your evidence of your 
adoption. When children cannot speak they can cry, and thus 
express their wants; and so may you "cry, Abba, Father!" that 
is, Father, Father; and if you can say no more, that will be 
rhetoric enough. Father will know what it means. 



186 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

"I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely." — Hosea 14:4. 

Return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by 
thine iniquity: Ver. 1. Instigated by the enemy of your soul, 
and prompted by your natural corruptions, in an unguarded 
hour, you turned your back upon your best, your only real 
friend; who, though you have acted so base apart, is not willing 
to give you up; but still calls after and invites you to return. 
Satan may suggest, that it is of no use your thinking of ever ob- 
taining a sense of your Father's forgiving love again; for you 
are too great a sinner for God to forgive; seeing you have not 
only sinned against your own soul, but have crucified the Son 
of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. It is true, you 
are a great sinner, a backsliding sinner; and all such are the 
worst of sinners; yea, and the Lord knows it; but so far from 
upbraiding or threatening you on account of it is he, that he 
now invites and urges upon you to return. Are you now pray- 
ing God to take away all iniquity? He says "I will:" Jer. 
3:22. You say, I am deeply wounded; the Lord says, "1 will 
heal.'' Your soul may be badly diseased, but then, it is not 
incurable; and the greater the disease, the more need of a Physi- 
cian: Matt. 9:12. The Lord here declares your case is not 
hopeless, and that you may safely rely upon his goodness; and 
trust to him for a sound cure. "I will heal their backslidings." 
Do you desire that the Lord would receive you graciously? For 
your comfort, he assures you, that he will not only do that, but 
"will love you freely," He will love you just as though there 
had never been anything amiss on your part: Titus 3:5. He 
will heal your backsliding by applying pardoning mercy; receive 
you graciously, as a tender father would a long-lost son: and 



TO BACKSLIDERS 187 

love you freely as he did before you strayed. Go, poor back- 
slidden soul, go at thy maker's call; parley not with the enemy; 
he has lied to thee formerly; and will do it again, if you will 
lend him your ears. Your having wandered from God has 
made no change in him; He is the same gracious and loving 
God now he ever was; do your first works, return unto him, 
stay with him, he will heal your wounds, and love you freely. 



188 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

"Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the children 
of God."— Matt. 5:9. 

Grace in the heart is seen in the life; and a pure heart will 
be accompanied by a pure life, and love of peace: James 
3:11-13. "Blessed are the peacemakers." As war divides 
nations, towns, families and individuals, so peace restores them 
to unity, and makes their object and interest one. A peace- 
maker is one who loves peace; desires it and seeks after it; he 
never fans the spark of strife; as he feels his own interest pro- 
moted whenever he can succeed in promoting that of others: I 
Pet. 3:10. The "peacemaker" uses all his influence to recon- 
cile contending parties; and though it sometimes proves a thank- 
les office, and he gets himself ill-used, he still pursues his course; 
because he knows it to be a good office; and he finds himself 
blessed in his work: Ps. 120:7. Those who possess much of 
the spirit of the Gospel of peace are already blessed ; and carry a 
continual blessedness in their own bosoms: Prov. 12:20. "They 
shall be called the children of God." Yea, and they shall, not 
only be so-called, for God will give them the evidence within 
that they are such : Rom 8:16-17. The Father is a God of peace 
Rom. 15:33; the Son is the Prince of peace: Isa. 9:6; and the 
Holy Ghost is the Spirit of peace: Gal 5 :22. God loves peace; 
and is so well pleased with peace-makers, he declares, they shall 
be called the children of God;" and seeing he never miscalls 
anything, as children, they shall be entitled to all his children's 
priviledges. They shall have his direction in difficulties: James 
1 :5 ; His support under trials: Ps. 55 :22; His protection in dan- 
gers: Ps. 34:7; His aid in sickness: Ps. 41:3; His presence 



TO THE PEACE-MAKERS 1 89 

in death: Ps. 23. 4; and a seat by His side after death: Rev. 
3:21. The man who has peace with God, should strive to 
make peace with man; and whosoever has peace within, should 
labor for peace without. Seeing God has done so much to 
procure peace for us, the least we can do is to make peace with 
each other. Let no one call himself a follower of Jesus, who is 
not a lover of peace; for He is our peace; our Peace-maker; our 
Peace-bringer; our Peace-giver; and our Peace- supporter: Eph. 
2:14. 



190 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the 
kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in 
heaven."— Matt. 7:21 

Jesus Christ looks upon men according to what they are; 
and not according to what they say. It will benefit us nothing 
to profess piety, if we practice iniquity: John 13:17. "Not 
every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord,'' with their lips, but 
deny me in their hearts and lives, "shall enter into the kingdom 
of heaven." Compliments may do for men, but will never do 
for Christ; for his religion is in power; and not in mere forms 
and words: 1 Cor. 4:20. If Christianity is not a good thing, 
why do we profess it ? and if it is a good thing, let us practise it. 
Let us either obey Christ, or cease to call him "Lord." Not- 
withstanding Jesus Christ is really and truly Lord: John 13 :13 ; 
he will not put off with a mere acknowledgement of it with the 
lips, without obedience in our lives: Matt. 15:7-8. He is the 
Lord of glory, and expects us to have regard to his glory, as well 
as our own. He that goes no farther in religion, than "Lord, 
Lord," will stop short of the "kingdom of heaven." Men may 
be well acquainted with the forms of religion, who are entire 
strangers to the power of the same. If we do the will of Christ, 
we do "the will of his Father which is in heaven;" for the will 
of the Father is the will of the Son; and his Father is our Father, 
if we are born of Him: John 1 :12-13. And if we do his will 
on earth, we shall reign with him in heaven. But in vain do 
we talk about faith in Christ, unless we obey his commands: 
John 15:14. A living faith is a working one: Gal. 5:6. A 
holy heart will produce a holy life: Jer. 7:23. 



TO OBEDIENCE 191 

We are such debtors to God, we can never pay him all we 
owe; and surely we ought to do the little we can. He does not 
demand a perfect obedience; he only requires a willing obedi- 
ence: Isa. 1 :19. The servants of God are all known by their 
obedience to the will of God. There are many who know God's 
will, but do their own will; and who, while they have a head full 
of religion, have a heart full of the world: l:John2:l5. A 
Christian is born for heaven, and bound to heaven; he is now a 
subject of the "kingdom of heaven." 



192 ' THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

"The prayer of the upright is the delight." — Prov. 16:8. 

God is so displeased with sin, that he cannot be pleased 
with anything the unconverted do; neither will he accept of any- 
thing at their hands; and while they love sinning, he will pay no 
regard to their praying: Ps. 66:18. But "the prayer of the 
upright, is his delight." The Lord has such a peculiar regard 
for the "upright," that is, those who are honest, candid, and 
sincere, without any allowed guile, that their prayer is not only 
accepted of him but a delight unto him : 1 Chron. 29:17. He is 
so well pleased with them in His Son, that He gives them pray- 
ing graces, works in them by his spirit, stirs them up to pray, 
accepts of their requests, and delights in doing them good : Jen 
9:24. The enemy of souls will do all he can to keep "the up- 
right" from praying; and when he cannot succeed in that, he 
will strive to persuade them that their prayers were so cold and 
formal, and their minds so wandering, while in prayer, that God 
has not heard them; and therefore, to expect an answer to them 
is altogether useless: Isa. 49:14. Do not be discouraged, 
though you may see much amiss in yourselves; but remember, it 
is the sincerity of the heart, and not its wanderings, that God 
looks at, and is pleased with: Ps. 1 1 :7. Persevere, watch and 
pray; and you will shortly find to your comfort that God has 
heard your prayer, by his giving you a gracious answer, a fresh 
token of his favor, and abundantly blessing your soul: Ps. 66: 
19. God has not only given you leave to pray, but a com- 
mand to pray; yea, and a heart to pray. And if you but live 
uprightly before Him, you have nothing to fear while you can 
pray: Micah 2:7. 



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TO SINCERITY AND UPRIGHTNESS 1 93 

Your enemies, Christian, are all conquered; though experi- 
ence gives you daily proof they are not all dead. Fold not 
your hands; you are still in the camp; and the enemy watches 
every opportunity to take all advantage: 1 Pet. 5:8. Guard 
against vain confidence in yourself; have faith in God; hope in 
him; and pray to Him; for ''the prayer of the upright is his 
delight. A prayerless soul is an unhappy soul; because it is a 
Christless soul. None have free access to God, who live far 
from God; do you therefore live near to him; and cultivate an 
acquaintance with him: Prov. 1 1 :20. 



194 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

"If any man love God, the same is known of him." — 1 Cor. 8:3. 

Those who are the greatest lovers of themselves, are the 
greatest enemies to themselves; and after ever learning, they die 
fools 2 Tim. 3:2-7. A man may know much of God, and 
yet not love him : but all who truly love him, are beloved of him. 
Love, like faith, is known by its fruits; for, "If any man love 
God," he will keep his commandments: 2 John 6. A heart 
influenced by the love of God, will esteem, desire, and delight in 
God in Christ, as his chief good, and sum all perfection and 
excellence; and take pleasure in obeying his laws; and delight 
in holding spiritual fellowshrip with all who bear his image; 
while he will do good unto all men; even his enemies: 1 John 
4 :20. Love to God renders its possessor patient under trouble, 
slow to anger, ready to forgive injuries; teaches him to deny 
himself, to mourn over the affiliations of others, to bear with 
their infirmities; makes a heaven below, and prepares for a 
heaven above: Gal 5 :22-25. **If any man love God," he will 
not only do others no harm, but will do them every possible 
good: 1 John 3:17. They who love God, in the general, are 
little and unknown, among men; but, let this comfort your heart 
the Lord knoweth them: 2 Tim 2 :19. No matter who he is, or 
what he is, "If any man love God, the same is known of him." 
He knows their ways and works: Ps. 1 :6; He knows their hearts 
Jer. 12:3.; He knows all their secret devotions: Matt. 6:6; He 
knows their troubles, and how to deliver them: 2 Pet. 2:9; He 
knoweth all them that love him; and is a strong hold in the day 
of trouble unto them: Nahum 1 :7. "If any man love God," 
he shall be taught of Him : John 6 :45. All who love the world, 
are strangers to the love of God: 1 John 2:15 and consequent- 
ly, are not "known of him," nor approved of by him. If you 
love God, it is an undeniable proof that he loves you: 1 John 4: 
19. And though you may never be worth a crown of life, you 
are heir to a crown of life: 2 Tim. 4:8. God often smiles, 
while his providence frowns: Gen. 42:36. You should never 
attempt to measure God's love to you by your love to him. 
"God is love;" even when you may feel emptied of love: 1 
John 4:16. 



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READING, PA. 



.a§€iui© Miiii§ii©ini 



A DOOR OF BLESSING 



FOR GIRLS AND WOMEN 



41? SopA FniFftlk St, R@admg, Pa. 



PREAMBLE TO CONSTITUTION 



Our Home is non-sectarian. We receive any girl or 
woman who needs aid and desires to lead a new life. 

We encourage the mother to care for and support her 
child, instead of allowing it to become a public charge. 

Our girls receive training in various branches of domestic 
labor, thus enabling them to become self-supporting. 

Our funds come from contributing members and dona- 
tions. Will you not aid us by donation or bequest? 



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CONSTITUTION 



ARTICLE I 
Name 
This organization shall be known as THE BEULAH 
ANCHORAGE, of Reading, Pa. 

ARTICLE II 
Object 
A Door of Blessing for girls and women. 

RESCUE MISSION 
The object and business of this organization shall be as set 
forth in its charter, which reads as follows: 

To rescue wayward, erring girls and women; 
lead them to Christ and help them to a life of use- 
fulness and happiness; to especially encourage young 
girls who have gone from the path of virtue, and 
are sincerely willing to reform and transform; to 
help them attain positions of honorable self-support; 
also to build up a good Christian character, and enlist 
their services in rescuing others who have fallen by 
the way. 

ARTICLE III 
Government 
Section 1. This organization shall consist of two govern- 
ing bodies, viz.: A Trustee Board and an Executive Committee. 

The duties of these Boards shall be to do the work and 
transact all the business of said organization. They shall also 
have the authority to ask for the resignation of any member, 
providing there are sufficient and just reasons to warrant it; 



198 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

and should she refuse to resign, they may declare her position 
vacant, and suspended as a member, by a majority vote of the 
Board of Trustees. 

Sec. 2. The Executive Committee shall be composed of 
thirteen members, not less than thirteen nor more than twenty- 
five, the Trustee Board included, and meet monthly to transact 
such business as generally pertains to such a committee. 

The officers of this committee shall be a President, two 
Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Treasurer and Cor- 
responding Secretary. 

Sec. 3. The Trustee Board shall be composed of nine 
members and meet quarterly to hear and approve the reports 
of the Executive Committee. 

Sec. 4. The Trustee Board shall elect its own President, 
Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer. 

The Board shall be members of the Executive Committee. 

Sec. 5. The Executive Committee shall see that at least 
one member of all the churches co-operating visit the institution 
once a month, and, if possible, with a donation. 

ARTICLE IV 
Section 1. The Founder and President of the Beulah An- 
chorage and its organization, Mrs. M. L. Landis, who received 
the call to do this work in a message from God through His 
word in the book of Hosea 2;19, 20, 21, 22, 23, after a conse- 
cration of her life, and consent of her husband, she stepped out 
on the Word of God and proved faithful and successful with 
the aid of such that helped and lend their assistance, for which 
she tenders many thanks to all who stood by her, and to all such 
that will continue. After she done faithful prison work for 
nine years, she felt the need of this mission work of Beulah 
Anchorage to rescue the fallen and the perishing. 



GOVERNMENT OF THE ANCHORAGE 199 

Sec. 2. Only such that have a Bible experience, born of 
God, and sanctified by the Holy Spirit, and have the fruits 
thereof, plain in her dress, no feathers or flowers on the bonnet 
or hat worn, shall be justified to do slum and rescue work, 
to hold the office of President and Matron. 

Sec. 3. Bought the Beulah Anchorage Home, 417 South 
Fifth Street, for ^6,000. It is a three-story house with 17 
rooms, and the lot is 56x130 feet. Took possession of same 
November 21, 1907; paid down, December 28, 1908, $2,500. 
There are 610 members of the Anchorage, who pay one dollar 
or more dues per year, and at present we have six inmates and a 
baby. During the past year we cared for fifty-one girls and 
women, and found homes for the majority of them. Some of 
these have been rescued and stood faithful. 

This means a rescue home where souls that have gone so 
far are rescued by coming under Christian rules of love and 
kindness. 

ARTICLE V ' 

Government of the Anchorage 
Section 1. A chart shall be placed on the vestibule wall 
for such that give three hundred dollars or more for the material 
fund as a contribution or donation. 

Sec. 2. The government of the Anchorage shall be thor- 
oughly paternal. Everything pertaining to reformatory or 
prison methods shall be rigidly excluded. No corporal pun- 
ishment shall be inflicted, and if a girl is not amenable to the 
power of love, she must withdraw from the Home. 

Sec. 3. Girls and women who enter the Anchorage must 
be willing to remain as long as the Board of Managers see fit. 
In cases where girls have been committed to the Anchorage by 
the Courts, the proper authorities shall be notified if a girl 
shows a spirit ofi insubordination. If this continues, she shall 



200 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

be turned back to them to be dealt with in some other 
institution. 

Sec. 4. The Anchorage should have articles prepared for 
the local press, as often as possible, presenting to the public the 
progress and needs of the work. 

Sec. 5. Public meetings shall be held by the different 
churches every Sunday afternoon, at the Anchorage. 

FORM OF BEQUEST 

I give and bequeath to Beulah Anchorage, of Reading, Pa., 

the sum of ....dollars, to be in- 
vested as the Board of Trustees may direct. Incorporated 
under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania. OiFice in the City 
of Reading. Home at 41 7 South Fifth Street. 

"The Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are 
glad." Ps. 126:3. 

'Tor all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him 
Amen, unto the glory of God by us." II Cor. 1 :20. 



Rules and Regulations Governing the Home 

The Board of Managers of The Beulah Anchorage (Char- 
tered) desire that Article 5, Section 3, of the Constitution, be 
carried out. This article is as follows: 

Girls and women who enter the Anchorage must be will- 
ing to remain as long as the Board of Managers see fit. In 
cases where girls have been committed to the Anchorage before 
or by the Courts, the proper authorities shall be notified if a 
girl shows a spirit of insubordination. If this continues she 
shall be turned back to them to be dealt with in SOME OTHER 
INSTITUTION. 

The Board of Managers planned and passed on it that all 
girls and women brought here by officials, parents, or come in 
by any other way, and leave the Home without permission, shall 
be required to remain six months longer and two months less, 
on good behavior as their punishment. 

What is this girl brought here for? 

When will you want her? 

We agree that if she breaks the rules of the Beulah 
Anchorage she will have to suflfer the punishment decreed by 
the Board of Managers for such wrong. This must be complied 
with. 

MATRON. — It shall be the duty of the Matron to superin- 
tend the work of the Home, and she shall have the authority to 
admit such persons as come under the head of rescue work. If 
the Matron can not decide upon the advisability of the admis- 
sion, she shall have the authority to call upon the President. In 
case she is unable to decide, the same to be referred to the 
Trustee Board. 



202 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

ASSISTANT MATRON.— It shall be the duty of the As- 
sistant Matron to solicit food and clothing for the inmates, with 
the assistance of the rescue inmates, and assist in such work as 
the Matron may direct. 

1. All inmates shall be required to conform strictly to the 
Rules. 

2. Every newcomer must take a bath before retiring. 

3. All inmates of this institution must remain for training 
and instruction as long as the Board of Directors think for their 
good, as this institution is especially to reform and save and not 
to encourage sin. All must rise and retire at the time specified; 
keep their rooms in order; be neat and tidy in dress and person; 
industrious during working hours and listen attentively to such 
advice as may be given by the ladies in charge. 

4. Rising bell at 6 A. M.; breakfast bell at 6.55 A. M.; 
breakfast at 7 A. M.; dinner at 12 M.; supper at 5.30 P. M. 

The Matron, Assistant and inmates are expected to be in 
their seats at the table promptly at the hour specified; each meal 
to be preceded by grace and doxology sung in chorus. 

5. Family worship at 7.30 A. M.; Bible reading from 7 to 
8 P. M. All must attend morning and evening worship, unless 
satisfactorily excused. 

6. Sewing every day for two hours, or as the Matron 
directs. 

7. The inmates are not allowed to go out unless with 
Matron or Assistant. No inmates allowed to leave town with- 
out permission of the President, and accompanied by Matron or 
Worker. 

Visits to inmates shall be in the presence of the Matron, 
unless she otherwise directs. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS 203 

8. The window shades shall not be left up after dark. 

9. No letters allowed to be received or sent out unless first 
read by the Matron or Assistant. 

10. All inmates shall be taught the simpler and general 
features of cooking, to set the table neatly, and to keep the 
dining room and kitchen in good order and assist in the general 
work of the Home, as the Matron may direct. 

11. The family is expected to gather in the sitting-room 
to spend their evenings. Girls will not be allowed to gather in 
their room and gossip. 

12. No eating between meals, or going into kitchen with- 
out permission. 

13. Girls or women, on entering, must submit to be thor- 
oughly searched, as no liquors, opiates, firearms or objection- 
able literature will be allowed on the premises. Profane lan- 
guage, slang phrases and all coarse jesting are strictly pro- 
hibited. Neither is the past life of sin to be talked over with 
other inmates. 

14. Baths must be taken at least once a week. 

15. Religious services will be held every Sabbath after- 
noon in the Home, and no person will be invited to hold any 
services without the consent of the Managers. 

16. The inmates will be expected to attend religious 
services once on the Sabbath, if able. 

17. Hours for retiring, no later than 9.30 P. M., and all 
lights must be out at 10 P. M. The Matron shall see that lights 
are extinguished at this hour, unless in case of sickness. 



Officers of the Board of Managers 

Founder and President — Mrs. M. L. Landis 
First Vice-President — Mrs. J. B. Knorr 
Second Vice-President — Mrs. Jer. G. Mohn 
Treasurer — Mrs. Chas. Hahn 
Secretary — Mrs. D. K. Kauffman 
Mrs. Eli W. Fox 



The Constitution and By-Laws, drawn up by the committee 
appointed for the work in 1907, were not changed in 1908, but 
merely finished, since the committee had decided not to com- 
plete their work until those article which had been drawn up 
had been given a trial of one year to see whether there were 
any additions needed. Articles which were embodied in the 
Charter drawn up for the Beulah Anchorage in 1907 were left 
unchanged. 

State of Pennsylvania, ) 
County of Berks, f 

Before me, the undersigned authority, personally appeared 
Mary L. Landis, President of the Beulah Anchorage, and Emma 
D. Hahn, Treasurer, who, being duly sworn according to law, 
doth depose and say that the foregoing Constitution and By- 
Laws of the Beulah Anchorage were duly adopted at a meeting 
of the members of the said Beulah Anchorage, held January 18, 
1909, due notice of said meeting and of proposed change in 
the Constitution and By-Laws having been given two weeks 
previous to said meeting by publication in the Reading Times. 

MARY L. LANDIS, 
Founder and President. 

EMMA D. HAHN, 

Treasurer. 

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26th day of 
January, Anno Domini 1909. 

My commission will expire January 21, 1911. 

P. A. Bushong, 

Notary Public. 



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206 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

Report of the Charity Endorsement Committee of the 
Chamber of Commerce 

The Charity Endorsement Committee of the Chamber of 
Commerce has carefully considered the work being done by 
Beulah Anchorage, and believes that the institution is perform- 
ing an important service in the community in providing tem- 
porary shelter for women. There are certain points of possible 
criticism of present methods, which, if called to the attention 
of the officers and members of the Board, we believe would be 
remedied. Our findings are the result of personal visits to the 
institution and a study of its records and printed matter. 

The most important point upon which we base a criticism 
is the present practice of admitting children for an indefinite 
term on the same basis as a home especially for children. That 
this is the case is evidenced by the fact that payment for board 
is accepted from a parent. This is a particularly bad practice 
in an institution which admits unfortunate women, with whom 
the children are brought in close daily contact. 

We think that the most important function of this organi- 
zation, as the result of the long continued efforts of its founder 
and her assistants, has been the establishment of a temporary 
shelter for women. This is the aim that should be kept con- 
stantly in mind, as it evidently meets a need. 

A serious physical situation was noted in connection with 
the building of a new annex, which has resulted in three small 
bed rooms on each of the three floors being shut off from the 
open air, since the windows now open into a hall. This is a 
condition that any good building code forbids. One of the 
essentials of proper construction is that every bed room must 
have a window opening directly to the open air, or at least to 
a court or area way of 100 square feet or more. It is a pity 
that a new construction, not yet completed, should have this 
serious defect. 



REPORT OF CHARITY EiNDORSEMENT COMMITTEE 207 

Beulah Anchorage should be either a voluntary temporary 
resting place for women or else a definite detention house 
legally established. At present barred windows and locked 
doors, together with the absence of authority, makes it neither 
one or the other. 

The Committee, before giving its endorsement to Beulah 
Anchorage, desires assurance on the following points: 

1. That it will admit no children under l5 years of age, 
except as members of a family asking temporary shelter. 

2. That Beulah Anchorage act as a rescue mission and rest 
house for any women who are in need of a temporary home. 

3. That the present status as a home of detention with 
locked doors, etc., be abolished. 

4. That a more thorough medical inspection of those ad- 
mitted be undertaken. 

5. That the practice of soliciting in the markets by inmates 
be prohibited. 



Beulah Anchorage 

Reading, Pa., May 31, 191 6. 

The Board of Trustees of Beulah Anchorage, including all 
officials, carefully reviewed the report of the Charity Endorse- 
ment Committee of the Chamber of Commerce and noted the 
objections contained therein, and hereby take this opportunity 
to answer the same. 

First. The Practice of Admitting Children : 

The Constitution of the Home allows admission of all girls 
from 12 years up. We have in the Home at present two 
children who are under this age limit, and were only admitted 



208 THE BEULAH ANCHORAGE 

under the earnest solicitation of the parents. We will agree 
not to admit any more children under the age limit, without the 
parents, unless first sanctioned by the Chamber of Commerce. 

Second : Temporary Shelter for Women : 

Our Constitution and By-Laws call for temporary and 
permanent shelter for women, or, in other words, we keep 
them until we can conscientiously sent them home or see that 
they are capable of taking care of themselves. The State gives 
us the aid with the understanding that this be a permanent home, 
if necessary. 

Third: Bed Rooms Without Windows to the Open Air: 

The three small bed rooms for which fault was found have 
been rectified by having windows placed in the corridor oppo- 
site the rooms. 

Barred Windows and Locked Rooms: 

We do not see how we could discontinue this and handle 
some of the girls and women that are sent us by the Police 
Department, District Attorney and, in some instances, the 
parents themselves. 



Medical Examination: 

There is a thorough medical examination, which can be 
ratified by consulting our physician. 

Soliciting at Markets: 

We are agreed to discontinue this at the markets, provid- 
ing all other charitable organizations do likewise. 

MRS. M. L. LANDIS, 
Founder and President. 



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LETTER OF ATTORNEY WILSON S. ROTHERMEL 209 

Reading, Pa., June 1, 1916. 

Mrs. M. L. Landis, 

417 South Fifth Street, 
Reading, Pa. 

Dear Madam: — 

I acknowledge receipt of your prepared answer to the 
several questions referred to you by the Chamber of Commerce, 
and will say that the matter is so well arranged that I would not 
attempt to make any retractions or corrections. They seem to 
express exactly what you have told me and are in clear lan- 
guage. Consequently I will leave them just as they are. 

Yours very respectfully, 

WILSON S. ROTHERMEL, 

District Attorney. 



Ministers Who Served at Sunday Afternoon Services 
and Committee 

Rev. W. F. Teel — Member of the Committee on 
State Aid 

Rev. J. Warren Klein — Member of the Com- 
mittee on State Aid. 

Rev. Hand 

Rev. Brunner 

Rev. J. Moyer 

Rev. Marquardt 

Rev. Leininger 

Rev. Snyder (Reformed) 

Rev. Fasnacht 

Rev. Romig (Reformed) 

Rev. A. W. Metzger 

Rev. Sweitzer 

Rev. Scott Wagner 

Rev. Casselman 

Rev. N. Kershner 

Rev. Peirce 

Rev. H. Weaver 

Rev. W. Neice (New Lutheran) 

Rev. Wengert 

Rev. Hangen 

Rev. Brownmiller (United Evangelical) 

Rev. Master 

Rev. W. Z. Ford 

Rev. T. Dickert 

Rev. M. H. Jones 

Rev. U. S. S. Renn 

Rev. D. Moyer 

Rev. T. Leinbach 

Rev. Romig (Evangelical) 

Rev. Buddinger (United Brethren) 

Rev. W. B. Bollman 

Rev. Z. Moyer 

Rev. Dr. Kendig 

Rev. E. H. Rernice 

Rev John Wintsch (Free Methodist, Allentown). 

Rev. Peirce 

Rev. Snyder 

Rev. W. Z. Klein 

Rev. T. W. Brown 

Rev. Seegers 
and others 



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